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The couple reconnected years after meeting in a Minnesota hospital, and bonded over their experiences: “I’ve dealt with that, sweetie. I understand that.”

A woman who was left paralysed on her left side after having a stroke has described music therapy as a "miracle".

Craig Ridenhour said military suicide is a "personal" issue for him.

Ridenhour is chair of the Tampa, Fla.-based nonprofit organization Stop Soldier Suicide, which works to dedicate each day to stopping soldier suicide. Studies, some released by the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies, have shown suicides being overwhelmingly linked to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Rugby is a physical sport, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the tackle. In amateur and school rugby union, tackles are responsible for well over half of all match injuries, making them the single biggest source of injury risk in the game. That reality has prompted growing efforts to make tackling safer without changing the essence of rugby itself.

Rob, 54, forgot how to do his job after a car hit him in a crosswalk, leaving him with cognitive and physical impairment. But he still remembered how to fix bicycles.

A Neurology^® study shows a link between people with neurological conditions and the risk of TBI.

Have you heard someone say online or in casual conversation, when responding to someone’s struggles, “well, the body keeps the score”?

For many people, this phrase is a useful way to name the physical toll stress and trauma can take when the body is in “fight or flight” mode.

The everyday use of this phrase also demonstrates the extraordinary reach of the 2014 non-fiction book that popularised it, The Body Keeps the Score by Dutch psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk. But as the idea has spread, it’s also been simplified.

Claude Lemieux's family said Saturday that the four-time Stanley Cup champion's brain will be donated to CTE research following his death at age 60 on Thursday.

After a former Navy SEAL struggled to find help, he turned to ibogaine. Now, he wants to encourage others.

He created INVI (Invisible-Visible) MindHealth, an app using continuous biometric and behavioral data allowing users to see meaningful changes in their mental health, prompting them to reach out for help based off real data. Users wear a device around their wrists, sumilar to a Fitbit or Apple Watch, to track the data.

After trauma, some people develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health condition that can involve intrusive nightmares, flashbacks and physical reactions when reminded of the traumatic event, such as a racing heart or difficulty breathing.

In our research, we scanned the brains of 136 people – half who had PTSD, and half who didn’t – while they used cognitive therapy techniques to challenge negative beliefs. We found the reason some people don’t respond to treatment may lie in the way PTSD has restructured their brains.

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