After traumatic brain injury (TBI), some patients may recover completely, while others retain severe disabilities. Accurately ...

The brain shows a capacity to recover from traumatic injury, which somewhat contradicts the widely accepted idea that neurons ...

A four–amino acid peptide called CAQK has shown powerful brain-protective effects in animal models of traumatic brain injury. Delivered through a standard IV, it zeroes in on injured brain tissue, ...

University of Pittsburgh researchers identified changes in BDNF DNA methylation as a dynamic biomarker of complicated ...

After a service-related brain injury left him with lasting effects, Scott Edgell found relief through a rehabilitation ...

A new study highlights how important uninterrupted sleep is to recovery after a traumatic brain injury, finding that fragmented sleep in injured mice is linked to a loss of rapid-eye-movement (REM) ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine establish an ad hoc committee to conduct a study to review the latest published ...

WILDWOOD, Mo. — A Wildwood family is touching the lives of hundreds of thousands of people across the country. They've gone viral sharing the resilient story of their son, who is living with a ...

The 25-year-old Jules Bianchi sustained the injury in an horrific high-speed crash into a recovery vehicle which came onto ...

Justin Shaw suffered a traumatic brain injury when a burning tree struck him in August 2024. After rehabilitation in Nebraska, he's returning to Idaho on Monday.

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