It's not uncommon to feel some sadness and stress over the holidays, particularly at the end of another difficult pandemic year. For Black Americans, unique challenges can contribute to the heightened feelings of stress, sadness, and loneliness that many people experience at this time of year. Find out what the causes may be and how to feel better.

People in crisis and those trying to help them will have a new phone number — 988 — to reach the national suicide prevention network starting in July. 

As many of us prepare to celebrate Christmas, the holiday season often causes a different emotion for thousands of military veterans. If you are struggling and need to talk to someone, please call The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

Diagnosis doesn't reveal the losses brain injury brings like experience does.

Grief is tied to all sorts of different brain functions, says researcher and author Mary-Frances O'Connor. That can range from being able to recall memories to taking the perspective of another person, to even things like regulating our heart rate and the experience of pain and suffering.

Paul said that his brain was scanned before he started his boxing career in 2018 and was told by a doctor that his brain was already affected by a lack of blood flow in certain areas, because of his concussions from playing football.

Donald Parham Jr.'s injury happened early in the game after catching a short pass for an apparent touchdown. There's been an uproar about how the frightening incident was covered on the national TV broadcast.

Successfully ending therapy is one of its primary goals — but there are different ways to get there.

Tips to manage emotions in therapy. -- For more on treatments for PTSD please visit The Treatment Hub.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with a man who is concerned about CTE, and with neuroscientist Bob Stern, who explains why more cases of CTE may emerge decades after plastic helmets became commonplace.