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…
A recent study conducted by the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab dug into a growing concern among sports fans: Youth football players are more vulnerable…
How long does a person have to play contact sports like football for concerns like brain damage? For youngsters around the age of 12,…
Researcher Dr. Bruce Lamb shares his insights on the connection between traumatic brain injury, cognitive functioning and dementia. A concussion may cause headaches, fatigue and…
How many hits can a person take before a blow to the head translates to damage that mimics dementia? Just one, according to new…
Repeated blows to the head, like those potentially sustained in football or boxing, have long been shown to contribute to long-term neurological damage. But…
Research shows that traumatic brain injury increases the risk for people to develop dementia at an earlier age. We know by now that traumatic…
Experiencing a traumatic brain injury can increase chances of dementia by up to 80 percent, even decades after the injury occurred, according to a…
December 22, 2017 Scientists still aren’t sure what causes Alzheimer’s disease, though there are many theories—beta-amyloid, an accumulation of a type of protein in…
Dr. David Satcher reflects on the current state of Alzheimer’s research, and his vision of the way forward. As a former U.S. Surgeon General,…
We know that your genes play a big part in your risk for various diseases, but up until the ’90s it was believed that…
A lot of research has been devoted to exploring whether people who’ve suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s…
It’s not abnormal to hear the phrase ‘traumatic brain injury’ and Alzheimer’s disease in the same sentence. That’s because a lot of research is…