Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a severely dangerous brain condition that is on the rise amongst athletes in contact sports. When research in brain injury first started back in the 1920s, ...

(CNN) -- Four former soccer players who had advanced forms of dementia were also found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study published Tuesday. Chronic traumatic ...

English soccer star Jimmy Fryatt was known for his ability to head the ball, and the proof of his prowess may be in the damage it did to his brain. Still physically fit in his late 70s, Fryatt played ...

BOSTON — The union representing English soccer players has created the first comprehensive protocol for preventing the brain disease CTE, expanding the heightened concern over concussions to include ...

NORTHALLERTON, England — Repeatedly heading a soccer ball “likely” contributed to the brain injury that was a factor in the death of former Manchester United and Scotland defender Gordon McQueen, a ...

Every fall, more than a million young Americans don helmets and shoulder pads to play high school football. But this year, questions are intensifying over the risk youth athletes face from repeated ...

A man who opened fire inside a Manhattan office building and fatally shot four people left a note referencing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease linked to head trauma, ...

This story mentions suicide. Mental health resources can be found at the bottom of this story. The death of Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound ...

Four more former professional soccer players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The Concussion Legacy Foundation says the North American Soccer League veterans were found to ...