Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boston University researchers link advanced CTE to dementia and show it is often mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease. (CREDIT: ...

A brain disorder associated with chronic repeated head blows, may also have a genetic component. A new study from Boston Children’s Hospital reveals DNA damage, similar to Alzheimer’s disease in the ...

Boston University researchers in a groundbreaking study found that those with CTE have a much higher chance of being diagnosed with dementia. The largest study of its kind from the Boston University ...

Boston–The largest study of its kind from the Boston University CTE Center reveals that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) should be recognized as a new cause of dementia. The research, published ...

The neurodegenerative condition chronic traumatic encephalopathy appears to be driven by damage to the blood-brain barrier due to repetitive head injuries, like those that occur in boxing. This sugges ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have found "conclusive evidence" that repetitive head impacts cause the degenerative brain disease CTE, according to a new study. Researchers from Harvard, UCLA, Michigan and ...

The man who strode into a midtown Manhattan office building and killed four people before taking his own life on Monday night left a note at the scene in which he appears to wonder whether CTE — the ...

The man who strode into a midtown Manhattan office building and killed four people before taking his own life on Monday night left a note at the scene in which he appears to wonder whether CTE — the ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy has long been discussed as a possible driver of dementia, but proving that link has been hard. Now, researchers at the Boston University CTE Center say the evidence is ...