Every March, the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) leads the nation in observing Brain Injury Awareness Month.

I’m writing a self-help book for people with brain injury to complement my memoir and website on brain injury, and I’m focusing on recognizing, processing, and healing grief. I first wrote about brain ...

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 ...

In a new study published in Communications Biology, Houston Methodist researchers led by Sonia Villapol, Ph.D., found that ...

A team at Texas A&M AgriLife Research has developed a new way to protect and potentially heal brain cells, using microscopic particles shaped like flowers. The so-called “nanoflowers,” metallic ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications Biology, Houston Methodist researchers led by Sonia Villapol, Ph.D., found ...

Scientists at Cedars-Sinai have uncovered a surprising repair system in the spinal cord that could open new doors for treating paralysis, stroke, and diseases like multiple sclerosis. They found that ...

Researchers find that short-term antibiotics can heal traumatic brain injuries by remodeling the gut microbiome and reducing neuroinflammation.

Doctors are now happening upon ways to regenerate a brain compromised by stroke. Stop and think about that and perhaps read the opening sentence once again. This is quite the leap. Broken bones can be ...

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 ...

New research shows why coronavirus infection may lead to long COVID, with long-term effects on the lungs and brain, unlike influenza.