BOSTON (AP) — The union representing English soccer players has created the first comprehensive protocol for preventing 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, ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Researchers at Boston University have found the head trauma-linked degenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a soccer player for the first time, The New York Times reports. The ...

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 ...

Boston University researchers hope they can tackle the mystery of how to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the living, as they recruit hundreds of former football players for a new ...