Traumatic Brain Injury Stories
When doctors told Michelle Davis that her husband Matt had a 10 percent chance of ever waking up from his coma, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
A Missouri inmate is scheduled for death by lethal injection this evening, despite his attorney's claims that significant brain damage prevented him from fully understanding the extent of his crimes.
Psychological symptoms, such as depression and PTSD, were better predictors of long-term disability in military personnel who suffered head trauma than were the usual tests of balance, memory, and thinking.
Patrick Fagerberg had a traumatic brain injury that left him with poor memory and problems speaking, but it also uncovered a great artistic talent.
Retired football players are letting scientists examine their brains, and the results are startling proof the sport hurts a child’s brain development.
The repeated head blows sustained by boxers and mixed martial arts fighters link to slower cognitive processing speeds and smaller volumes of certain brain parts.
Italian doctors were shocked to see a patient, who had been in coma for over a year, unexpectedly awaken and regain full conscious after receiving midazolam, a sedative.
The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks' game on Sunday will drag the NFL drug policy under a microscope.
Researchers have found that bumping your head from falling off your bike, among other accidents, could cause brain damage that impacts thinking and memory skills.
ER visits for traumatic brain injuries have risen over the past several years, which researchers believe may have to do with increased awareness about TBIs.
Isaac Kolstad, 24, and Philip Robert Nelson, 20, became involved in a fight outside a bar in Mankato, Minn.; the result was TBI and assault charges, respectively.
Researchers discovered that higher education not only helps in reducing the effects of Alzheimer’s, but it also can help people recover from traumatic brain injuries.