You’re probably familiar with the typical symptoms of a concussion: confusion, dilated pupils, or dizziness are all signs of TBI. But concussion is actually a very complex condition, and there are many symptoms and signals that you may not have picked up on. From strange visual issues to odd memory problems, getting a concussive brain injury

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Many adults treated at U.S. emergency rooms for mild brain injuries fail to get follow-up care within three months even when they have moderate to severe concussion symptoms, a recent study suggests. Researchers examined data on 831 patients treated for mild brain injuries at 11 U.S. trauma centers who completed follow-up surveys about their care two

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Children with brain injuries face significant challenges when transitioning from hospital or home to school where they face issues such as lack of educator understanding and catching up with missed work. Leading researchers in the field of pediatric brain injury from across the globe identify today’s key issues in supporting children and youth with brain

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Rates of concussions and musculoskeletal injuries may have increased with the use of protective headgear in High School Girls Lacrosse. The study examined data for girls’ lacrosse players in Florida for the three years prior and three years after the implementation of the headgear mandate in 2015. Researchers also looked at similar data during the

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Serum neurofilament light (NfL) outperformed tau, as well as S100B and neuron-specific enolase (NSE), as a blood-based biomarker for the detection of acute sports-related concussion(SRC) in a prospective longitudinal cohort study of professional hockey players published in Neurology. Of the 288 hockey players who were followed, 105 sustained an SRC. Of these individuals, 87 underwent blood tests

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Following head injury, the protective lining that surrounds the brain may get a little help from its friends: immune cells that spring into action to assist with repairs. In a new study, scientists from the NIH watched in real-time as different immune cells took on carefully timed jobs to fix the damaged lining of the

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Published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology, researchers found that the risk of death was reduced by about a third in people who had the highest omega-3 index, compared with those who had lower omega-3 levels. Using data from 2,500 participants from the Offspring cohort of the Framingham Heart Study, the participants of the study had an average

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In one of the largest studies on the association, researchers found people who suffered traumatic brain injuries were more likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Published in The Lancet Psychiatry, researchers studied 2.8 million patient records. They found people with a history of brain injury had a 24% higher risk of dementia than those who

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