A Georgia man’s life was changed forever when he sustained a catastrophic brain injury. Now his family is battling the court system over what happens to his mind and body.

A newly discovered biological signal in the blood could help health care teams and researchers better understand how children respond to brain injuries at the cellular level, according to our research in the Journal of Neurotrauma.

In the future, this information could help clinicians identify children who need more tailored follow-up care after a traumatic brain injury.

The dogs train for the specific needs of the person they’re working with, but are all taught to disrupt panic attacks and help veterans feel safer in stressful situations.

About a quarter of U.S. service members and veterans who start psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) quit before they finish treatment, according to a recent study, with experts pushing for more effective long-term approaches to sustain mental health treatments.

The Postal Service will highlight its Healing PTSD stamp in December.

The Healing PTSD release has raised more than $2.2 million since its introduction in 2019. More than 18 million stamps have been sold.

Proceeds are used to support people suffering from PTSD, which is an acronym for post-traumatic stress disorder. The funds are distributed to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which oversees the National Center for PTSD.

One Washington-based Indigenous organization wants to close a nation-wide research gap on how many Native women sustain brain injuries during domestic and sexual abuse.

“We have many people who have experienced incredible head trauma that was never diagnosed,” Urban Indian Health Institute Director Abigail Echo-Hawk said. “They were never able to see a physician or they never got a screening for potential traumatic brain injury.”

“When I went to go look and find the most compelling and recent data on traumatic brain injury within Indian Country and with Indigenous peoples, I couldn't find anything specific,” she told SPR News.

A mobile brain scanning system, thought to be the first of its kind, is being developed to measure the effect of blast exposure in soldiers.

A team at the universities of Nottingham and Birmingham has used £3.1m of Ministry of Defence funding to develop a vehicle-based lab that can be taken to field hospitals, firing ranges and rehabilitation centres.

It will allow the study of how blast and other trauma affects brain function within minutes of the event, far faster than relying on static equipment, scientists said.

As the saying goes, “Never underestimate the power of fitness,” and Erica Liermann is a prime example of that message. 

After being diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, she searched for some type of healthy outlet to overcome her depression. Working out became her core therapy, and these days, far removed from the Baghdad desert, she’s helping others through fitness. 

At the same time, the grief persists over losing who I used to be before my injury.

(This First Person narrative is by Natalia Rybczynski, who lives in Ottawa. She worked with CBC producers to structure and transcribe her oral storytelling.)

A neuroscientist, he employed a battery of high-tech tools in devising a fast-acting therapy that targets the area of the brain where depression originates.