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

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 new study shows large increases in the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head in emergency departments across the United States from 2007 to 2022. The study, which was published on ...

Use of head CT scans in U.S. emergency departments has more than doubled over the past 15 years, a new study says. Nearly 16 million head CT scans were ordered by ERs in 2022, up from under 8 million ...

Bleeding occurs when trauma damages a blood vessel. When that trauma involves your head—whether the scalp, skull, or brain—it’s considered a head injury. These head injuries range in severity from a ...

The number of emergency department encounters that included a head CT more than doubled between 2007 and 2022, according to a study published Nov. 19 in Neurology. Researchers from the medical schools ...

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins suffered an apparent head injury during the fourth quarter of his team's Week 12 game against the New England Patriots. The injury occurred when Higgins ...

An Oklahoma junior college basketball player died after he suffered an injury during a game on Saturday. Ethan Dietz, a sophomore forward at Connors State College in Warner, Oklahoma, died on Tuesday, ...

I shake my head when I read letters to editor in the Courant, complaining about taxes and blaming Democrats. The latest one in Saturday’s Courant was once again ranting about “arrogant” Democrats just ...

Ethan Dietz, a basketball player at Connors State College in Warner, Oklahoma, died Tuesday, three days after sustaining an injury in the second half of his team's game against Grayson College.

A junior college basketball player died Tuesday after he sustained a head injury during a weekend game in Texas, his school in eastern Oklahoma said. Ethan Dietz, a 6-foot-8 forward for the Connors ...