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The COVID-19 pandemic has motivated many people with neurologic conditions to guard their health more aggressively.

When Jordan Emerson was 13, she was a member of the Whiz Kidz race team. They raced 4-cylinder compact cars on a small NASCAR racetrack in Scarborough, Maine.

During a race in 2007, Emerson’s car spun off the track and slammed into the outside wall. The result was a TBI, a coma, and a change in personality.

Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was playing with her daughter when she fell and hit her head on the hardwood floor. She recounts the confusing and painful injury and her experience at the hospital during the pandemic’s “new normal.” 

Singer-songwriter Jewel and her friend Dr. Blaise Aguirre, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, spoke about creative ways for young people to take care of their mental health during stressful times.

In skeleton, the headfirst Olympic sledding sport, the opportunity for unlimited training on the track can be a huge advantage. But Canadians Olympians who had such access believe it was bad for their brains.

People with a history of concussion may face increased risks of certain psychological and neurological conditions, a large new study suggests.

A person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past, according to new research.

Past and present find their place as a couple wades through what their future holds. And it’s all OK.

Regardless, of where one might find themselves on a continuum of support for the 43-year-old rapper, it seems as though the public has been given front row access to West’s manic breakdown and have consequently formulated an opinion that could very well be based on the actions of a person who is in the depths of a severe mental health crisis. 

Childhood abuse will often have reverberating effects later in adulthood, leading to therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

However, there is some debate over what form of therapy is most effective in this patient population.

A team in the US and Germany compared the efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy for PTSD (DBT-PTSD) with cognitive processing therapy (CPT).

In the days, weeks and months before the sky fell, Lindsay Simpson felt everything was finally coming together. She had just gotten married. She and her new husband were closing on their first home together. At 32, she was a vice president for D.C. United. Then, just before that first game, a long aluminum railing cover fell from the seating area overhead and came crashing down. Nothing was the same after that.

They worked for my depression. Could they be the future of psychiatry?