When Gabe Brown woke up from a coma last January at UPMC Mercy hospital, he could do little more than tilt his head and shift his eyes. The 28-year-old suffered a severe traumatic brain injury nearly ...

Women are more than twice as likely as men to develop stress-related conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye-called the ...

A 50-year-old woman with persistent orthostatic headache is repeatedly misdiagnosed until imaging identifies spontaneous ...

From football fields to military training grounds, head injuries are leaving lasting marks on the brain in ways we're only ...

The evidence indicates that non-invasive monitoring (near-infrared spectroscopy; NIRS) of oxygen in brain tissue likely does not reduce death rates or short-term brain problems for very premature ...

A Yorkshire man has revealed how his 'running injury' turned out to be a sign of deadly cancer. Sean Ryan Sweeney, 31, began ...

Medical University of South Carolina scientists have uncovered a link between the innate immune system and cognitive problems ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the developing “social brain." Here’s what we know—and when parents should be ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...

Researchers uncovered an unexpected form of neural resilience: after traumatic injury, surviving retinal cells in mice grow new branches that reestablish lost connections in the brain’s visual system, ...

A former high school athlete is suing multiple Oregon institutions after suffering a head injury during a track and field meet in the spring that required brain surgery. Former Oregon Episcopal School ...