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.

World Cup winner Kat Merchant wants better care for retired players, saying she has "lower cognitive capacity" following numerous concussions.

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"If you go and plant a crop in March, and your whole world gets flipped around ... that's just so scary. That is just a scary bet to make," Kuhlman said.

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.

People with a history of concussion are more than twice as likely to develop a neurological disease, according to a new study that gathered the largest ever dataset on the syndrome in the UK.

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 head injury crisis facing collision sports can be only be helped with increased awareness, collaboration and funding.

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.

Hayley Hodson, the 2015 American Volleyball Coaches Assn. freshman of the year at Stanford, saw her career cut short because of post-concussion syndrome.