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Learn how brain circuits that help regulate slumber may also control consciousness, helping advance research.

Key senators, including the chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, are renewing a push for an in-depth study of how brain injuries affect veterans' mental health.

CTE Center encourages former players and families to reach out with CTE concerns, saying “we are learning how to effectively treat symptoms, especially in mid-life”

The late-night doubts that haunt us are designed to make us question our trauma.

Data exclusively shared with Military.com from a live-fire mortar exercise by U.S. Army troops indicates that simply standing near mortars can significantly disrupt Autonomic Nervous System, or ANS, functioning within a day to worse levels than seen in concussed college athletes or elderly hospital patients.

Unseen wounds that remain unhealed.

You probably hear about concussions most when it comes to sports. Er, men’s sports. But it’s not just men or male athletes that deal with the injury. In fact, when comparing the same activities, women are actually more likely to suffer concussions than men.

The inability of adults to produce new neurons was pretty much the central dogma of neuroscience until the 1960s. But as with a lot of fathers in that decade, a younger person challenged that decree.

Kids often get depressed after natural disasters. These steps help protect them.

Concussions are a known risk for athletes playing at a recreational or professional level. But in recent years, research has started to highlight a concerning trend. Concussions for female athletes have tripled in the past two decades. However, there’s little research to explain why

"It took me a long time to realise how lucky I was. It just wasn't my time."

Martin Longmore learnt to walk and talk again after suffering a brain injury in a serious crash in 2001 and was given two days to live. He's been recognised for supporting others with brain injuries.

The very thought of being 'locked in' following a brain injury or even aware during general anesthesia induces fear because it awakens the classic terror trope of being buried alive. But what does it mean to be awake, but entirely unable to respond, and what can this tell us about consciousness itself? In a new paper published in the journal Lancet Neurology, Western University neuroscientist Adrian Owen and his colleagues at Western, Lawson Health Research Institute and Harvard University describe new developments in the field of neuroimaging that can reveal the thoughts, actions and intentions of brain-injured individuals based solely on the pattern of activity observed in their brain. Most importantly, this breakthrough can be used to predict survival rates of intensive care unit (ICU) patients.