Anyone who plays or watches hockey knows it's a contact sport. But a first-of-its-kind study is now proving just how easy it is to develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE. The brain disease is often associated with football, but the new research out of Boston University and it's leading CET Center found a hockey player's odds increase a whopping 34% every year they play.

While helping with a training activity at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Donnamarie Lovestrand saw more than a decade of inquiry put into practice. That inquiry began in 2011 when Lovestrand, now an associate professor of nursing at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was a staff nurse in the post-anesthesia care unit of Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital at Fort Polk (now Fort Johnson) in Louisiana. “It was not infrequent that I would have these soldiers who would wake up (from anesthesia) hallucinating that they were back on the battlefield – and there was nothing we could do to turn them around,” she said.

Basketball is a sport that Troy Akins loves, but it doesn’t come without a potential for injury. “We were at practice playing fives and I got elbowed in the head. It hurt for a second but it went away as my adrenaline was running,” Akins said who’s a Woodland Hills junior. By the next day, he was dizzy and pulled from the big game.

Nearly a quarter of women experience physical abuse from partners, and up to 90% of those women have had at least one concussion. Most don’t get screened or diagnosed.

As organs go, the human brain is an odd one. It’s remarkably big relative to our bodies, for starters. It’s also wrinklier than most, with a complex, folded surface making space for the tens of billions of interconnected neurons that give rise to our species’ unique cognitive powers. Oh, and it’s jiggly — like, really jiggly.

After years of back and forth, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a clinical trial to determine whether cannabis helps veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). FDA Approves Cannabis Study for Veterans with PTSD This critical multi-state study, dubbed MJP2, will include more than 300 participants. The researchers argue it will connect the dots between real-world cannabis use and scientific theory. This connection could bring hope to the thousands of veterans struggling with PTSD. The FDA’s Division of Psychiatry Products greenlit the study after a hold in 2021 over regulatory concerns. But MAPS appealed the decision, which paved the way for the recent approval.

A new study from researchers at the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center is helping solve the mystery as to why the brain shrinks in a unique pattern, known as atrophy, in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Published in Acta Neuropathologica, this research provides novel evidence that cumulative repetitive head impacts are driving the specific patterns of brain degeneration found at the base of the folds of the surface of the brain, known as the cortical sulcus.

A new study out of Boston University’s CTE Center found an increased risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, in male hockey players the longer they played the game.

For the first time since the 1960s, the Department of Veterans Affairs is studying whether a psychedelic substance is effective for treating mental health conditions — specifically, post-traumatic stress disorder or alcoholism.

Washington Commanders running back Austin Ekeler detailed the symptoms he has experienced following his second concussion of the season in his first interview since the injury occurred in Week 12 against the Dallas Cowboys.