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When former international rugby player Michael Lipman began struggling to remember things just said to him by his wife, he knew he had a problem.

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The 48-year-old actress admitted that the pandemic has had a negative impact on her mental and emotional health, with the racial unrest that erupted around the country taking a particular toll.

The way players train needs to be addressed "very quickly", says the head of the Rugby Players' Association, after ex-professionals said the sport has given them permanent brain damage.

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a drastic effect on the mental health and wellbeing of stroke survivors and their carers. This has coincided with vital post-stroke rehabilitation and support services being reduced or cut. As survivors struggle to adapt to post-stroke life with limited external support, the burden of care is increasingly being placed upon family members and carers.

Patrick Skluzacek suffers from PTSD nightmares. His son, Tyler, created a smart watch app to disrupt them, which just got FDA approval. They share their story with NPR's Debbie Elliott.

t's a moment perhaps everyone who's played rugby — or any contact sport — has experienced; your head hitting the turf, or accidental head-to-head contact. For some, the contact doesn't cause any issues, maybe a bruise or a bit of short term pain. For me, it meant a concussion; throbbing headaches, nausea, 'fogginess', a struggle to concentrate and more. Just under three months after smacking the back of my head into the ground twice over six weeks playing rugby, I'm still struggling.

The year 2020 has exacted a psychological toll on Americans. Levels of anxiety and depression have skyrocketed. Here are some ways to help those who are dealing with mental health issues.

Alarm bells are ringing in sport about the risk of a group of chronic, neuro-degenerative diseases, commonly understood as dementia. There is an increasingly large body of evidence which has identified that small, repetitive collisions of the brain inside the skull cause this disease.

After a car accident in 2012 left Ruby Taylor with a brain injury, she was forced to retire as a school social worker and faced eviction from her condo. The parent of a former student was helping Taylor with some financial and legal advice and asked her if she had any investments to fall back on. She didn't, but that moment gave her an idea for a business: closing the racial wealth gap through financial literacy and education.

Thousands of traumatized veterans kicked out of the Army achieved a legal victory Wednesday after the Army agreed to review punitive discharges linked to mental health and sexual assault trauma, potentially unlocking care for those struggling in their post-military lives.