After killing four and taking his own life, Shane Tamura — a former football player at two L.A.-area high schools — left ...

CTE is defined as a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes brain damage similar to what’s seen in patients with ...

The man who killed four people in the New York City skyscraper that is home to NFL headquarters carried a note blaming the ...

CTE, caused by repeated head trauma, has prompted a reckoning at all levels of football. The gunman believed he was suffering ...

A 2017 study found that more than 87% of football players tested across all levels — high school, college, and pros — tested ...

To date, nearly 350 former NFL players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after their death.

Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old shooter who fatally shot himself, was a former standout high school football player who claimed he suffered from CTE, the brain disease that has been found to be common ...

Researchers have diagnosed many former football players with CTE since 2005. It can only be diagnosed through a brain autopsy ...

Young athletes (ages 6–14) in tackle football experience vastly more head impacts — up to 15 times more — and 23 times more ...

The release had no new information about CTE itself, nor was it tied to fresh research produced by BU. Still, it had the desired effect: It put the topic back on the radar on the eve of football's ...

The researchers who have pioneered the identification of CTE in contact-sport athletes said they may have found a way to recognize the degenerative brain disease in people while they’re still alive.

Fear of CTE among football players and their families is high after years of research and publicity around high-profile cases, but some researchers say the narrative around the disease has ...