Kirsty Coy-Martin has recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after 23 years serving as a police officer, including many years on a child abuse investigation team.

Zac Easter’s teenage years revolved around football. In an extract from his latest book, Reid Forgrave looks at how the sport has impacted one family

Every demographic in the U.S. has been affected by COVID-19 in some way, but one that needs particular care and support is veterans with PTSD.

It was only when I started collapsing — violently, dangerously — for no apparent reason, that I began to understand the impact of being kidnapped 25 years earlier

News emerged this week former AFL footballer Danny Frawley was suffering from a brain disease called CTE when he died last year, according to reports received by the Victorian Coroner.

The quest to detect the degenerative brain disease CTE in the living and what it could mean for football’s concussion crisis

It has been almost five years since 24-year-old Zac Easter took his own life, blaming his rapid demise on the concussions he sustained playing football. In an excerpt from a new book, 'Love, Zac,' those closest to Easter reassess their relationships with the game. ... But change is a tricky thing.

A private non-profit research group seeking to conduct a final phase of clinical trials of MDMA, the main ingredient in the recreational drug ecstasy, got a major boost last month from Silicon Valley and Wall Street donors.

A majority of youth are symptom-free and fully recovered 1 year after concussion. Those with repeat concussion had worse outcomes and delays in returning to normal school routines and sports. The findings suggested the need for education strategies to potentially reduce parental anxiety following a pediatric concussion.

A collaborative study conducted by scientists from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense (DOD), and multiple academic institutions has identified blood biomarkers that could help to predict which athletes need additional time to recover from a sports related concussion. Amounts of two proteins, tau protein and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) were found to be significantly different in athletes who needed less or more than 14 days to return. While further research is needed, the results of this study are an important step towards the development of a test that could help predict which athletes need more time to recover from a concussion and resume activity.