A 2022 publication claimed repetitive head impacts in contact and collision sports were the cause of CTE. This article has ...

Concerns about the long-term impacts of concussion and head injury have become prominent in recent years, particularly among ...

Scientists say the case could be "the tip of the iceberg" for women in sport. CTE causes an increased risk of mental illness and has also been linked to dementia, but can only be diagnosed post ...

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Professor Grant L Iverson, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, ...

Tator said CTE, in and of itself, does not cause death. Nor does it directly lead to any other things that would cause death, such as a heart attack or stroke. And while the results of the autopsy ...

For years, the NHL has worked to make the sport of hockey safer and has tried to mitigate the amount of blows to the head players take. Despite the efforts to m ...

Recent research suggests repeated blows to the head, even those that don’t cause concussions, can lead to the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). A Truveta ...

But because CTE can’t be properly diagnosed until after a victim’s life is over, it’s been tough to gather consensus about its causes from across the spectrum of the hockey world.

BOSTON — The NHLPA will form an advisory committee to help hockey players better understand chronic traumatic encephalopathy and the damage that concussions can do to the brain. NHLPA president ...