Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) stage III and IV neuropathology is associated with increased odds of dementia, a ...

The largest study of its kind from the Boston University CTE Center reveals that the progressive brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy should be recognized as a new cause of dementia. Those ...

Researchers are exploring whether cannabinoids may help protect football players’ brains from repetitive head trauma and CTE—but current evidence is early, limited, and far from conclusive.

Alcohol impairs the body’s ability to deal with cold, said Dr. Abhi Mehrotra, a University of North Carolina emergency medicine physician. It also can make you feel warmer than you actually are, ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy has long been discussed as a possible driver of dementia, but proving that link has been ...

The Mayo Clinic cites repeated head injuries like concussions as a cause of CTE. The hallmark of CTE is the abnormal build up ...

Brian Schaefering’s NFL career lasted five seasons, during which he played defensive end for the New York Jets, Dallas ...

Patients with advanced chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease likely caused by repeated head injuries, were more than four times as likely to develop dementia compared to those ...

People with the most advanced CTE are 4.5 times more likely to develop dementia during their life than people without CTE, ...

Brain donors with stage IV CTE pathology and no other progressive brain disease had four times the odds of a dementia ...