Local 12 | Professional football players were once believed to be the only group vulnerable to the deadly brain disease CTE, which is caused by repeated head injuries and concussions. But a new study proves young athletes who played a variety of sports suffered from CTE at alarming rates. Read more.
The Messenger | In 2019, Wyatt Bramwell, 18, fatally shot himself in the chest just months after graduating high school. After his tragic death, doctors determined that he had advanced chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a devastating degenerative brain disorder caused by playing tackle football. Read more.
Concussion Legacy Foundation | For the first time, twin brothers have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after their deaths. Read more.
Concussion Legacy Foundation | The parents of a former Missouri high school football player are going public with their son’s stage 2 (of 4) chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) diagnosis. Read more.
CNN | In July 2019, just months after graduating from high school, 18-year-old Wyatt Bramwell took his own life. About a year later, researchers at Boston University diagnosed him with stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE, caused by playing tackle football for several years. Read more.
WIRED | Dr. Ann McKee remembers the first time she saw a case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. She’d been staring down at the brain of deceased boxer Paul Pender, and the damage she saw had caught her off guard: “I was looking at the boxer’s brain, and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” she […]
Irish Independent | A link between the length of a rugby union player’s career and the risk of a degenerative brain condition has been found in a new international study. Read more.
Boston Herald | A rugby player’s risk for developing CTE increases the longer their career lasts, according to a new landmark study involving Boston University researchers. Read more.
NeurologyToday | Approximately 41 percent of young athletes who participated in contact sports showed signs of post-mortem chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to a report published Aug. 28 in JAMA Neurology. Read more.
CNN | From the NFL to youth soccer, sports teams have been forced to reckon with decades of research showing the risks of repeated blows to the head through contact sports. Listen now.