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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The gunman who killed an NYPD officer and three other people on July 28, 2025, in Midtown was largely motivated by his frustrations with the NFL. Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old shooter who fatally shot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...