The gunman who unleashed chaos in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper this summer is a stark reminder of how little we know about a devastating brain disease typically associated with NFL players — which ...

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Shane Tamura, the gunman who opened fire at a Midtown Manhattan building that houses the NFL's headquarters, killing four people in July, had low-stage CTE, the New York City Office of the Chief ...

A new BU CTE “groundbreaking” study could be a game changer for safety in contact sports, according to researchers who found that repetitive hits to the head leads to brain damage in young people ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a disease of the dead. Clinical features suggestive of the ...

Summary: New research shows that repetitive head impacts from contact sports trigger early and lasting brain changes in athletes years before chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is detectable. The ...

As football season kicks off across the country, so does the recurring conversation around concussions, mental health and the long-term risks of repeated head trauma. At the center of this discussion ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is in the news again. In late July, a man killed four people and then himself in New York City in what investigators believe was an effort to draw attention to ...

The gunman who shot and killed an NYPD officer and three other people in midtown Manhattan on Monday carried a handwritten note claiming he had CTE — a degenerative brain disease that is the result of ...

CTE cannot be definitively diagnosed before death A 2023 Boston University study showed CTE in people under 30 Shane Tamura said he was targeting the NFL headquarters CTE cannot be definitively ...