A 2017 study found that more than 87% of football players tested across all levels — high school, college, and pros — tested positive for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.

The New York City shooter who sought to attack NFL offices said he had the degenerative brain disease CTE, thought to be ...

The man who killed four people in the New York City skyscraper that is home to NFL headquarters carried a note blaming the league for the cognitive problems he developed as a high school football play ...

However, four years of high school football could expose a player to CTE, said Chris Nowinski, co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit group that supports athletes and others ...

On July 28, 2025, 27-year-old gunman Shane Tamura entered a New York City office building that is home to the National Football League’s headquarters. He shot and killed four people and injured ...

A degenerative brain disease that has been linked to concussions and other head trauma common in military combat and contact sports, CTE has been diagnosed in more than 100 former NFL players and ...

Out of 202 deceased former football players total — a combination of high school, college and professional players — CTE was neuropathologically diagnosed in 177, the study said.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease that has been linked to concussions and can only be diagnosed by examining the brain after death. It is linked to memory ...

Will High School Football Be Banned? Dr. Richard Besser appears live on "GMA" to weigh in on the recent report that one in 14 high school football players experiences a concussion.

Will Smith is tackling concussions in his upcoming film, Concussion, about Dr. Bennet Omalu, the famed doctor who discovered neurodegenerative disease, which many NFL players have suffered after ...

Dale Earnhardt, Jr., to Donate Brain to Concussion Research The two-time Daytona 500 champion tweeted that he will follow some NFL players in donating his brain for research.