A team of researchers from APL and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is developing next-generation brain organoid platforms to better understand the effects of mild blast-induced ...

It starts with a hit. Maybe a tackle in a high school football game. Maybe a blast wave during military service. The damage ...

Two new studies have provided further insights into the complex links between head injury in elite rugby and potential ...

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) happens to millions of people annually. It can strike anyone, from athletes to grandma cooking lunch. Most of these injuries go und ...

The rugby league community is in full support of the Mark Hughes Foundation. Yet players' brains need further protection.

Coroner Bruce Hesketh slated the competition as having "all the hallmarks of perilous activity that makes no attempt to ...

The apology came after Slater linked late Maroons coach Paul Green to a comment made by former NSW prop Aaron Woods.

Repeated TBIs are linked to an increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases like early-onset dementia, which has the highest prevalence and is the most concerning, writes Kathy ...

Now he probably suffers from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. The neurodegenerative condition is linked to repeated blows to the head. His brain is damaged beyond repair.

Dr. Ann McKee, director Boston University's center for research into the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, addresses an audience on the school's campus Thursday ...