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The Atlantic | Mar 21, 2025

A new production of Othello foregrounds what its earliest audiences recognized: the psychological costs of war.

Mental Floss | Mar 21, 2025
Anyone who has ever played ‘Tetris’ knows how addictive the ’80s video game can be. Scientists say the Tetris Effect may even have psychological benefits for people coping with PTSD.
Discover Magazine | Mar 20, 2025

Understanding how the brain responds to fear could help treat people with phobias, PTSD, and anxiety.

The Conversation | Mar 19, 2025

Most young athletes also have significantly lower neck strength compared to adults. This weakness, combined with a proportionally larger head size relative to their neck, leads to greater forces transmitted to the brain when an impact occurs.

The New York Times | Mar 5, 2025

The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth.

Discover | Mar 5, 2025

Learn how brain circuits that help regulate slumber may also control consciousness, helping advance research.

The Wall Street Journal | Mar 4, 2025

Elite athletes are learning that the best way to recover from a sports-related concussion isn’t to shut down all physical activity. It’s to get back in a workout routine—and quickly.

Military.com | Mar 4, 2025

Key senators, including the chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, are renewing a push for an in-depth study of how brain injuries affect veterans' mental health.

Australian Broadcasting Company | Feb 26, 2025

The federal government will fund a $12.5 million pilot, led by Dementia Australia, to support people living with probable chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

It comes after years of campaigning from rugby league legend Wally Lewis.

The Brink | Feb 26, 2025

CTE Center encourages former players and families to reach out with CTE concerns, saying “we are learning how to effectively treat symptoms, especially in mid-life”

NPR | Feb 26, 2025

In 2015, the NFL agreed to an uncapped settlement to pay former players diagnosed with brain disease. The agreement came after players sued the league for covering what it knew about the links between brain disease and football. But who's gotten paid and how much is affected by their race. On the final episode of our series on race and football, we speak with Will Hobson, investigative sports reporter at The Washington Post.

Psychology Today | Feb 13, 2025

The late-night doubts that haunt us are designed to make us question our trauma.

Smithsonian Magazine | Feb 11, 2025

Researchers identified two brain areas in mice that helped the animals learn to suppress their instinctive fears of predators.

Military.com | Feb 6, 2025

Data exclusively shared with Military.com from a live-fire mortar exercise by U.S. Army troops indicates that simply standing near mortars can significantly disrupt Autonomic Nervous System, or ANS, functioning within a day to worse levels than seen in concussed college athletes or elderly hospital patients.

The New York Times | Feb 6, 2025

The Navy quietly started screening elite fighter pilots for signs of brain injuries caused by flying, a risk it officially denies exists.

Psychology Today | Jan 31, 2025

Unseen wounds that remain unhealed.

BBC | Jan 29, 2025

Yoga has been found to increase grey matter and alter key networks in the brain. Now there are hopes it could be used to help improve people's mental health.

Women's Health | Jan 29, 2025

You probably hear about concussions most when it comes to sports. Er, men’s sports. But it’s not just men or male athletes that deal with the injury. In fact, when comparing the same activities, women are actually more likely to suffer concussions than men.

Discover Magazine | Jan 17, 2025

The inability of adults to produce new neurons was pretty much the central dogma of neuroscience until the 1960s. But as with a lot of fathers in that decade, a younger person challenged that decree.

The Conversation | Jan 17, 2025

The thousands of firefighters and other first responders on the front lines of the fires that are raging in the Los Angeles area are at increased risk for anxiety, depression, acute stress and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Psychology Today | Jan 10, 2025

Kids often get depressed after natural disasters. These steps help protect them.

STAT | Jan 8, 2025

Research suggests concussions could awaken latent infections in the brain and lead to dementia

STLPR (NPR) | Jan 7, 2025

Concussions are a known risk for athletes playing at a recreational or professional level. But in recent years, research has started to highlight a concerning trend. Concussions for female athletes have tripled in the past two decades. However, there’s little research to explain why

NPR | Jan 7, 2025

There's this early research about arteriovenous malformations, or AVMs, which are a malformed tangle of veins and arteries that can cause a stroke.