Dave Duerson, the former safety for the Chicago Bears who killed himself in February, had been suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — and the degenerative brain disease likely ...

Dave Duerson, a two-time Super Bowl champion with the Chicago Bears and New York Giants, tragically chose to take his own life last week. But when the 50-year-old former NFL safety and successful ...

“It’s an open sore for them at this point,” said Alicia Duerson, Dave’s wife for 25 years before their 2008 divorce. ... Fear that his brain was failing him. Now Dave Duerson is gone.

No one will ever know why Dave Duerson, the four-time Pro Bowl safety who played for the 1985 Super Bowl champs, the Chicago Bears, killed himself with a shot to the chest last week, at age 50 ...

No one will ever know why Dave Duerson, the four-time Pro Bowl safety who played for the 1985 Super Bowl champs, the Chicago Bears, killed himself with a shot to the chest last week, at age 50 ...

That is how Alicia Duerson and her children — Chase, 28; Tregg, 26; Brock, 22; and Taylor, 16 — will mark the one-year anniversary of the day Dave Duerson took his life.

Seau's death highlights questions about brain injury and depression. May 2, 2012— -- The circumstances coming to light about the death of former NFL linebacker Junior Seau may highlight what ...

It was 3 o'clock last Friday morning when Alicia Duerson's iPhone flashed with a text message from her ex-husband Dave Duerson in Florida. She was confused when she woke up and read the words ...

Duerson committed suicide in Florida at the age of 50 after asking his family to donate his brain to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, where Dr. Robert Cantu is a co-director.