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An estimated 955,000 military veterans experience moral injury. While symptoms overlap with PTSD, moral injury is distinct.

Struggling to find reliable therapy, Paul Kim created a business streamlining the claims process and delivering a vast network of providers.

Scott Kelly, who appeared on 'The Tonight Show' last fall, will host a three-part series exploring treatment on 'At the Water's Edge' in June.

Texas is helping shape the future of psychedelic therapies. Here’s how they work and what access could look like.

In the final stages of his dementia, a long-lost memory from childhood returned, perfectly formed. What was going on in his brain?

At a Senate hearing on April 22,2026, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., referred to ibogaine as the most promising treatment for PTSD and depression “that anybody’s ever seen.” Does the science hold that up?

It's the date that is seared into Paralympic champion Alexa Leary's brain.

July 17, 2021: the day her "second life" began, following the traumatic brain injury (TBI) she sustained in a cycling accident at age 19.

It's the date 24-year-old Leary now wants recognised as traumatic brain injury awareness day, to help fuel understanding of the unique challenges associated with the sudden changes a TBI brings.

March is brain injury awareness month, but there is currently no specific day dedicated to TBI. 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday granted fast-track review to three companies studying psychedelic therapies to treat depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the latest step by the Trump administration toward possible approval. 

The agency did not disclose the specific companies that were granted priority review vouchers. Two companies are studying psilocybin; one for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and the other for treatment of major depressive disorder. A third company is studying methylone, a drug similar to MDMA, for PTSD.  

On top of the daily toll of treating patients, the show’s medical providers bring their own scars to the E.R.

A recent move from a leading insurance provider has made it more difficult for AFL and AFLW players to access brain injury insurance.

In March, Zurich Australia announced concussion and head trauma exclusions for professional players who held total and permanent disablement (TPD) insurance as part of the AFL Players Association superannuation fund, the trustee for which is AMP.

This means no TPD benefit will be payable for football-related brain injury including concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

So why did Zurich make this move and how may the decision impact sports leagues and athletes?

We hear the Commanding Officer of Fort Campbell, home of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, recorded when the based closed down for three days following a rash of eleven suicides. Brigadier General Loree Sutton is the military’s top-ranking psychiatrist and Director of the Pentagon’s Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. She talks with Steve Paulson about what the military is doing to combat the alarming statistics concerning suicide, alcoholism and PTSD in returning vets.

More than 350 U.S. service members have been injured since military action against Iran began in February. The majority of those are traumatic brain injuries. TBIs have become the defining injury of post 9/11 conflicts, and the symptoms can often linger for years, or even a lifetime. Liz Landers discusses more with Jayna Moceri Brooks, who has studied combat-related brain injuries for years.