The Defense Department on Tuesday announced the launch of an online memorial that recognizes more than 47,000 U.S. service members who have died on active duty since Jan. 1, 1985.

Teri and Patrick Caserta have been coming to Capitol Hill for three years to create a bill to help members of the military get easy access to mental health care. The effort is in honor of their son, Brandon Caserta, who took his own life in 2018 while in the Navy. The bill passed Dec. 15, 2021.

 ‘It’s OK to hurt. This was big.’ David Houvenagle, a licensed clinical social worker and lead adult mental health therapist at University of Louisville’s Peace Hospital, said there can be both immediate and long-term trauma from disasters such as this, and offered advice for navigating the aftermath.

Brain mapping, training helps reverse damage. Some initial football patients report improved focus, memory, and attention to detail.

Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related deaths for kids and young adults, experts say.

Scientists are beginning to understand how COVID can cause brain injuries. The virus can lead to a stroke, starve the brain of oxygen, cause inflammation brain and might infect and kill brain cells.

The brain of Phillip Adams, the former NFL player who killed six people in April before fatally shooting himself, showed signs of severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the director of the Boston University CTE Center announced Tuesday. Neuropathologist Ann McKee said in a statement released by the Concussion Legacy Foundation that an examination of Adams’s brain revealed Adams had Stage 2 CTE, with Stage 4 being the most severe stage of the degenerative brain disease caused by repetitive impact to the head.

For women veterans who have insomnia and probable posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for insomnia was found to improve symptoms of insomnia, mental health symptoms, and quality of life (QoL), according to study findings published in Women’s Health Issues.

Headaches, nausea, dizziness, and confusion are among the most common symptoms of a concussion. But researchers say a blow to the head can also make it hard to understand speech in a noisy room. Listen to this short discussion about concussions and how understanding its effects on our perception of sound might help improve treatment.

Could the news get graver for our veterans with brain injuries? A study just published by the journal PLOS One reveals grim truths about how members of our military suffer from brain injuries they received during service. Pre-mature cognitive decline in young veterans with concussions, also known as mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), may lead to a host of other problems down the road. This study reveals that mTBI is, among other things, a gateway to Parkinson’s Disease.