Concussion and head trauma is a real and serious risk for many people — especially those who frequently get knocked on the head, like…
It’s Friday night, your team is playing, and scores are nail-bitingly close. A player intercepts the ball, and bam! A player tackles his opponent…
Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is missing ‘quite a bit’ of her brain. How can people survive and thrive after brain injury? In a…
Last week, star quarterback for the Miami Dolphins Tuanigamanuolepola “Tua” Tagovailoa had an alarming head injury on the field – just days after a…
Neurology and psychiatry professor Christopher Filley at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus shares insights from new research on brain’s gray matter and…
You probably don’t realize it when you’re listening to your favorite song, but music has an incredibly powerful effect on the human brain. Singing, playing…
There is growing recognition that repetitive head impacts increases the risk of CTE, a brain disease that can only be definitely diagnosed at autopsy….
Concussions are one of the most common injuries in football, and medical experts are increasingly concerned that repeated head traumas could lead to heightened…
Concussions are a serious problem. With symptoms ranging from a day-or-two-long headache up to prohibitive dizziness and cognitive issues that could last for weeks,…
Recently, some scientists have called into question a long-standing hypothesis that certain star-shaped brain cells known as astrocytes support the integrity of the blood-brain…
Studies have repeatedly shown that contact sports like hockey and football lead to repeated brain injuries that can cause CTE. However, research has also…
The August before my junior year of high school, I spent time training for field hockey preseason, a week of rigorous practices in the…
Diagnoses of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — a debilitating brain disease caused by repeated brain trauma — are on the rise among former pro…
As the number of people with Alzheimer’s grows in the coming decades, more attention is being paid to people who develop dementia as a…
Resetting the brain’s immune cells and delaying chronic inflammation may help improve traumatic brain injury recovery, according to a new study. Researchers at Trinity…