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Boston University's CTE Center was formed as a part of the school's Alzheimer's Disease Center (BU ADC) which was established in 1996. [5] As the prominence of long-term brain injuries continued to grow in the early 2000s, the CTE Center collaborated with the United States Department of Veteran Affairs and the Concussion Legacy Foundation to form the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank.
Dr. McKee directs multiple brain banks including those for the BU ADRC and Framingham Heart Study which are based at VA Bedford, and the UNITE brain bank based at VA Boston. Dr. McKee's research focuses on CTE and the late-effects of traumatic neurodegeneration. Dr. McKee is a leading authority on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a ...
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a type of brain damage that has been found in 345 of 376 deceased former National Football League (NFL) players, according to a 2023 report by the Boston University CTE Center, which has led the effort to diagnose CTE cases.
In early January, the family of former Tennessee Titans tight end Frank Wycheck, who died at 52 in December 2023, announced that researchers at Boston University’s CTE Center confirmed that ...
Brett Favre, of the Green Bay Packers, has said he believes he may have CTE, as well. Boston University announced last year that 345 former NFL players, out of 376 who were studied, had been ...
Roughly one-third of former professional football players surveyed believe they have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a recent study. The brain disease, better known as CTE, is ...
In 2008, the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at the BU School of Medicine (now the BU CTE Center) started the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank at the Bedford Veterans Administration Hospital to analyze the effects of CTE and other neurodegenerative diseases on the brain and spinal cord of athletes, military veterans, and civilians.
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