The latest head-trauma news in football is decidedly mixed: not good, but now there’s at least some hope for improvement. First, the bad parts: the family of Junior Seau, the former All-Pro football ...

Doctors and advanced researchers have long thought that the number of concussions suffered by athletes increased their likelihood of being diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease chronic ...

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

Pro football Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett and two other former top players have been diagnosed as having signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE. Dorsett, who rushed more than 12,000 yards with ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, returned to the national limelight this week when a gunman who believed he had the degenerative brain disease killed four people in a Manhattan skyscraper.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A deadly Manhattan office shooting by former high school football player Shane Tamura has renewed attention on how head injuries are managed in amateur football. Tamura, 27, ...

Aaron Hernandez of the New England Patriots gets tackled with his helmet by Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens during the 2013 AFC Championship game at Gillette Stadium on Jan. 20, 2013, in Foxboro, ...

The brain disease that the NFL has now acknowledged can be caused by playing football appears to be more widespread than originally thought, according to new scientific evidence that has alarmed some ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Dr. Gil Rabinovici, a leading neurologist at UC San Francisco, has examined "thousands, if not 10s of thousands" human brains. On a recent day in his ground-floor Mission Bay office, ...