A head injury is an injury to your brain, skull, or scalp. This can range from a mild bump or bruise to a traumatic brain injury. Common head injuries include concussions, skull fractures, and scalp ...

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 ...

As we gain better understanding of how slips, trips and fall accidents can affect the brain, it’s time to consider new ...

As winter sports season reaches its peak, the thrill of the slopes and the rink often comes with high speeds and hard ...

As any fan who has caught a sporting event—baseball, basketball, soccer and especially football—in the past 15 years will tell you, discussion of concussions and traumatic head injuries has dominated ...

Your brain is a complex, marvelous, unique connection of nerves, blood vessels and tissues. Its texture is similar to custard in a bowl – soft, pliable and slippery. Yet, it is the center of your ...

You must have heard this warning call from elders: don’t get hit in the head, it won’t do any good in the future. Turns out they were right all along. A groundbreaking new study has shed light on a ...

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, offering a time to bring attention and support to an issue often overlooked in the Black community. The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) reports that ...

Adults who experience a head injury face a substantially higher risk of attempting suicide compared to those without such injuries, according to the findings from a new UK-based study. Published in ...

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation—two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...