TAMPA, Fla. (BLOOM) — It starts with a hit. Maybe a tackle in a high school football game. Maybe a blast wave during military service. The damage isn’t visible, at least not right away. But for thousands of former athletes, service members, and their ...

The ongoing story of hockey players and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) took another step forward with the publishing of the largest-ever study on the brains of male hockey players – a study that suggests the odds of getting a neurodegenerative ...

A definitive CTE diagnosis requires a post-mortem brain autopsy, according to the Mayo Clinic. While commonly associated with football, CTE risk extends to other contact sports and activities like military service. California has implemented protocols for ...

Researchers found that advanced CTE is strongly linked to dementia and serious cognitive decline. Mild cases of CTE were not associated with significant memory or functional problems. Mood and behavioral symptoms were not clearly tied to CTE itself ...

Claude Lemieux's brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday.