Hormone could help heal traumatic brain injuries
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Close to 2 million people are affected by traumatic brain injury, or TBI, every year. After an injury, the goal is to preserve as much of the [...]
Crack a sweat to cut your stroke risk
Sedentary people are 20 percent more likely to suffer a stroke than those who regularly break a sweat, according to South Australian researchers. Dr Michelle McDonnell, from the University of [...]
Is Malcolm Gladwell Right, Should College Football Be Banned To Save Brains?
Journalist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell is an outspoken advocate of banning college football on health grounds, and his appearance on CNN’s ‘GPS with Fareed Zakaria‘ has turned up the volume [...]
Living in a world without smell
Anosmia or the loss of the ability to perceive smell can profoundly affect our eating and drinking behaviours, sometimes permanently, remembering that it's pre and post nasal smell, along with [...]
How Handwriting Trains the Brain
Ask preschooler Zane Pike to write his name or the alphabet, then watch this 4-year-old's stubborn side kick in. He spurns practice at school and tosses aside workbooks at home. [...]
How to prevent common sports injuries in children
Ally Carr was learning how to slide into home plate this spring when she tore the meniscus in her knee. She had to have surgery to repair the tear and [...]
Bike helmets should address concussion risk, scientists say
While sports medicine has gained a deeper understanding of head injuries in recent years, protective headgear hasn't kept pace, and that is particularly true when it comes to bicycle helmets, [...]
Football powerhouse Nebraska tackles concussions with new technology
LINCOLN, Neb. — If all goes according to Dennis Molfese’s plan, the day is coming when a football player who takes a hit to the head will come to the sideline, [...]
Teens And Traumatic Brain Injury: One In Five Canadian Teens Reports Experiencing One
If one survey of teens in Ontario, Canada, is any indication, as many as one in five seventh-through-twelfth graders has experienced some kind of traumatic brain injuryin his or her life. [...]