When I was 16, my grandmother’s physique puzzled me. Her shape suggested obesity, but her limbs and face contradicted my observation. I asked my father, a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine ...

A TBI can affect thinking, movement, emotions, sleep and relationships. Recovery is often a marathon, not a sprint.

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation — two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. When the injury is to the brain, the balance is that ...

Ashley Carson was reduced to tears. In the aftermath of a second life-changing car accident, the then 24-year-old from St.

Scientists identify a high-altitude genetic mutation in yaks that produces ATDR, a Vitamin A metabolite that repairs myelin damage in MS and cerebral paralysis.

The term “nervous breakdown” is no longer used—“mental-health crisis” is the nomenclature du jour—but I think I had one two years ago. My journey into the psychological night was precipitated by a ...

TAMPA, Fla. (BLOOM) — It starts with a hit. Maybe a tackle in a high school football game. Maybe a blast wave during military service. The damage isn’t visible, at least not right away. But for ...

As Grand County resident Julie Mahoney focused on walking in the tire tracks left by a car, she looked up to find she was not the only one on the snow-covered road. With half a foot of fresh snow ...

The moment a traumatic brain injury occurs, everything changes for you and your family. Unlike a broken bone that heals or a cut that leaves a scar, brain injuries create invisible wounds that can ...