New research reveals how a "leaky" blood-brain barrier connects sports-related head injuries to long-term brain disease like CTE.

The "unique pattern" of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the debilitating brain disease known as CTE, has been found for the first time in a patient before he died, NBC News reported. It was detected ...

An inquest heard that signs of a serious brain disease were found in Ricky Hatton after his tragic death last year - the NHS ...

The neurodegenerative condition chronic traumatic encephalopathy appears to be driven by damage to the blood-brain barrier ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to understand exactly how years of taking hits to the head while playing sports can translate into severe memory loss and dementia later in life. Now, a study ...

The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced ...

Research, led by teams at Trinity College Dublin and the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Center, has pinpointed the mechanism ...

The crazed gunman who massacred four people at the NFL’s headquarters building in Midtownwhile holding a note begging for his brain be studied for “CTE” actually had the tragic brain disease, the ...

BOSTON (AP) — The degenerative brain disease that has besieged the National Football League for two decades with a billion-dollar lawsuit, congressional hearings, an A-list movie and an unrelenting ...

Brain scans from American football players reveal subtle differences in the brain's outer grooves when compared to scans from otherwise healthy men who never played contact or collision sports, a new ...

COSTA MESA, Calif., Dec. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The authoritative neuroradiology reference Diagnostic Imaging: Brain, Fifth Edition (Elsevier) now confirms that functional neuroimaging tools like ...