Researchers are exploring whether cannabinoids may help protect football players’ brains from repetitive head trauma and CTE—but current evidence is early, limited, and far from conclusive.

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Punch-drunk syndrome, boxer's madness, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The name has changed over the years, but the ...

Advanced CTE quadruples risk for dementia, new study shows - Boston researchers say CTE should now be considered a cause of ...

Doctors and advanced researchers have long thought that the number of concussions suffered by athletes increased their likelihood of being diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease chronic ...

A light-based headset may help protect football players from brain injury and traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) by reducing ...

Patients with advanced chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease likely caused by repeated head injuries, were more than four times as likely to develop dementia compared to those ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Back in February, KDKA-TV's Kristine Sorensen visited former weatherman Jon Burnett after he was diagnosed with suspected CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy. That's causing ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have found "conclusive evidence" that repetitive head impacts cause the degenerative brain disease CTE, according to a new study. Researchers from Harvard, UCLA, Michigan and ...

High-impact sports like American football, soccer and rugby often involve repeated blows to the head, and although these impacts don't always cause concussions, a new study shows that even minor hits ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy has long been discussed as a possible driver of dementia, but proving that link has been ...