Patrick Skluzacek suffers from PTSD nightmares. His son, Tyler, created a smart watch app to disrupt them, which just got FDA approval. They share their story with NPR's Debbie Elliott.

Quality of life is important for persons with traumatic brain injury, and new studies find it's just as important for the person's caregiver. "We developed the [TBI-CareQOL Measurement System] tool as a way to have standard measures for quality of life in caregivers of persons with TBI."

t's a moment perhaps everyone who's played rugby — or any contact sport — has experienced; your head hitting the turf, or accidental head-to-head contact. For some, the contact doesn't cause any issues, maybe a bruise or a bit of short term pain. For me, it meant a concussion; throbbing headaches, nausea, 'fogginess', a struggle to concentrate and more. Just under three months after smacking the back of my head into the ground twice over six weeks playing rugby, I'm still struggling.

States with strong football cultures have often fumbled measures to protect young players who've suffered concussions, researchers say.

The year 2020 has exacted a psychological toll on Americans. Levels of anxiety and depression have skyrocketed. Here are some ways to help those who are dealing with mental health issues.

“‘What do you do?’ the woman asked me. I hesitated. I thought, ‘I’m disabled,’ but instead, I told her, ‘I’m between jobs.’”

Alarm bells are ringing in sport about the risk of a group of chronic, neuro-degenerative diseases, commonly understood as dementia. There is an increasingly large body of evidence which has identified that small, repetitive collisions of the brain inside the skull cause this disease.

Ellie Furneaux looked like she was going to become Britain’s next star in the sledding sport skeleton. But a series of concussions took a heavy toll.

After a car accident in 2012 left Ruby Taylor with a brain injury, she was forced to retire as a school social worker and faced eviction from her condo. The parent of a former student was helping Taylor with some financial and legal advice and asked her if she had any investments to fall back on. She didn't, but that moment gave her an idea for a business: closing the racial wealth gap through financial literacy and education.

The Professional Footballers' Association is setting up a new taskforce to further examine the issue of brain injury diseases in football.