Ann McKee, a professor at the Boston University School of Medicine and the director of BU’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, was named the 2017 Bostonian of the Year by The Boston Globe on...
A little over a month after scientists announced they may have discovered a way to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, in living people — not just postmortem — athletes and veterans...
The Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center moved one critical step closer to detecting the neurodegenerative disease — which has previously only been studied through post-mortem...
Aaron Hernandez, a former New England Patriots tight-end and convicted murderer, had CTE, the Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center found.
Hernandez’s brain was donated...
A Boston University research is continuing her fight to dismiss a subpoena filed by the National Hockey League, which she argues would disrupt their research on brain trauma. The subpoena demanded...
Boston University School of Medicine professor Ann McKee; Chris Nowinski, co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation; and Rachel Blauner, a midfielder on the BU women’s soccer team, discussed...
Ignorance is bliss, isn't it?
We see what we want to see. We know what we want to know. And we ignore the truth when it doesn't affect us.
You probably know something about the concussion epidemic...
The National Hockey League has filed subpoenas against three Boston University employees in regards to their research on concussions.
Chris Nowinski, Ann McKee and Robert Stern all have until Oct. 1...
At the beginning of the month, the NCAA Injury Surveillance Program published data on sports-related concussions that occurred between the 2009-2010 and 2013-2014 academic years. The data stated that...
