Patrick Grange was diagnosed with CTE after his death. Feb. 27, 2014 — -- The first soccer player to be diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) has drawn attention to the ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a severely dangerous brain condition that is on the rise amongst athletes in contact sports. When research in brain injury first started back in the 1920s, ...

English soccer star Jimmy Fryatt was known for his ability to head the ball, and the proof of his prowess may be in the damage it did to his brain. Still physically fit in his late 70s, Fryatt played ...

(CNN) -- Four former soccer players who had advanced forms of dementia were also found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study published Tuesday. Chronic traumatic ...

BOSTON — The union representing English soccer players has created the first comprehensive protocol for preventing the brain disease CTE, expanding the heightened concern over concussions to include ...

NORTHALLERTON, England — Repeatedly heading a soccer ball “likely” contributed to the brain injury that was a factor in the death of former Manchester United and Scotland defender Gordon McQueen, a ...

The brain of the man accused of killing four people at a New York City skyscraper on Monday will be studied to determine if had the progressive brain disease known as chronic traumatic chronic ...

Every fall, more than a million young Americans don helmets and shoulder pads to play high school football. But this year, questions are intensifying over the risk youth athletes face from repeated ...

Soccer heading has long been suspected of impacting brain health, but exactly where and how it leaves a mark has been a blind spot. Now, for the first time, scientists have a clear picture of the ...

Four more former professional soccer players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The Concussion Legacy Foundation says the North American Soccer League veterans were found to ...