New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is revealing why traumatic brain injury increases the chance ...

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

Anoxic brain injury is happens when your brain does not get oxygen. It is a serious often life threatening medical event with ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have uncovered how and why traumatic brain injury (TBI) increases the risk for Alzheimer's disease, and their work suggests a potential way to ...

Your brain needs a constant supply of oxygen to work properly and survive. But if something interrupts or cuts off the oxygen flow to your brain for 4 minutes or longer, brain cells begin to die. This ...

Some children recover better after traumatic brain injury than others, despite appearing similarly to doctors. Looking at the ...

Traumatic brain injury multiplies the risk of major depression eightfold. While the emotional trauma of whatever caused such deep damage may be understandable, from a blast in a war zone to a blow on ...

The lifelong consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be severe, but until the last decade, they received little attention from doctors treating military veterans. According to the Department ...

The Toyota pickup hit the tree that May morning with enough explosive force to leave a gash that is still visible on its trunk 39 years later. Inside the truck, the bodies of three teenage boys hurled ...

Mauricio A. Garcia-Barrera receives funding from the BC Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, Vancouver Foundation, and Michael Smith Health Research Foundation Cole J. Kennedy receives funding ...