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.
Concussion Legacy Foundation | The family of a woman diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) caused by domestic violence is publicly sharing her story for the first time. Read more.
WIRED | Evan Hansen was born to play football. A strong, rambunctious kid, he started playing sports year-round as early as he could. Read more.
Rolling Stone | Since DuQuan Myers died six years ago, he’s come back in ways that are mysterious and magical and hard to explain. It started the day of his funeral, when the doves that were released over his coffin refused to fly home, perching instead in the oak tree just above his grave as […]
WBUR | Young contact-sport athletes are at risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease of the brain often caused by repeated hits to the head, according to a new study. Read more.