A new type of degenerative brain disease, limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), was recognized just a decade or so ago, and remains relatively unknown. In the disease ...

While attempts have been made to further define CTE, there remains debate about what the different observed changes in the brain mean ... such as Alzheimer's disease or dementia.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a “progressive degenerative” brain disease that affects people “who have suffered repeated concussions and traumatic brain injuries,” according to the ...

Boosting a specific protein in the brain could help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study has found. The longstanding theory is that Alzheimer’s occurs when a protein called ...

A new study of nearly 2,000 former NFL players found that one in three of those surveyed believe they have the degenerative brain disease CTE, which has affected hundreds of professional football ...

Researchers have not made a direct link between Hernandez’s disease and his behavior. Here what to know about CTE and Hernandez's brain. CTE is an incurable degenerative brain disorder that ...

and his family immediately blamed CTE, the degenerative brain disease that is often caused by repeated concussions. Kristjan Lautens is a staff reporter, working out of the Star’s radio room in ...

A new type of degenerative brain disease, limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), was recognized just a decade or so ago, and remains relatively unknown. In the disease ...