The Force of Blows to the Head, Not Just How Many, Raises Likelihood of CTE

The Brink | Boston University | For years, researchers studying chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, believed the primary cause of it was repetitive hits to the head, whether or not those hits caused concussions. They believed the more frequently that a person sustained head blows, the more likely they were to develop neurological and cognitive struggles later in life. Read more.