The 27-year-old former Patriots star killed himself last April. — -- Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez’s April suicide marked the last chapter in a dramatic fall from ...

25% of former football players who reported that they believed they had CTE also reported having suicidal thoughts Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

BOSTON - Researchers at Boston University on Monday reported finding CTE in 345 of the 376 former NFL players they have studied so far. The school's CTE center said the 91.7% occurrence rate of CTE in ...

Chris Simon, who won a Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 1996, had stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when he died by suicide in 2024, according to a post-mortem brain tissue ...

The man who killed at least four people in a N.Y.C. office building shooting claimed in his suicide note to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) CTE is a rare and progressive degenerative brain ...

With two Philadelphia Eagles players in concussion protocol after Sunday's game, there's renewed attention on brain injuries in football. A new study released Monday outlines those concerns among ...

Brain pathologies including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease, were identified in young deceased athletes, autopsy data showed. Among 152 contact sports players under ...

The degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE, was found in more than 40% of athletes who died before 30, a study out Monday showed, illustrating the growing ...

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Chris Nowinski, co-founder and CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, about the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Study my brain. As we just heard, ...

The family of Demaryius Thomas revealed Tuesday that the former star wide receiver had stage 2 CTE at the time of his death. Thomas was found dead in his Georgia home in December, just months after he ...