FOR DECADES, Martin Teicher, M.D., Ph.D., has investigated the impact of trauma on the developing brain. He is currently an ...

Adolescents have long engaged in high-risk behaviors and poor decisions. Now we know that it's got a lot to do with what's ...

In December of 1993, former World Boxing Champion John Famechon (who had sustained severe incapacitating brain injuries in August 1991) began a new, complex multi-movement therapy and rehabilitation ...

Children who experience traumatic events may show subtle but measurable differences in how their brains process attention and control impulses, according to a new study published in Neuropsychologia.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) results in close to 70,000 deaths in the U.S. every year, and it is the cause of long-term physical, cognitive and mental disability in 5 million Americans. But despite ...

Mass General Brigham researchers compared data from more than 75,000 adults with TBI to a control group of the same size. They studied the patients over 24 years and observed how many developed brain ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with history of moderate/severe TBI had a significantly higher risk for malignant brain tumors than those ...

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 ...

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Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...