Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly work to solve. A wave of research is now overturning that assumption, ...

Actress Evangeline Lilly shared she has brain damage from a traumatic brain injury or TBI. The injury occurred after an ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a major source of disability and mortality while outcomes remain highly variable due to the complexities and multisystem nature of TBI and the fact that there is ...

For more than a century, neuroscience textbooks have treated damaged neurons in the adult central nervous system as a dead end, especially in the delicate circuitry that carries visual information ...

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 ...

Getting treatment within one week of a serious head injury can reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by up to 41%, according to new research from Case Western Reserve University. The ...