An Alabama community is in mourning following the death of a high school quarterback who suffered a brain injury during the school’s season opener Friday night, according to statements from school officials and the teen’s family. Caden Tellier was taken to a hospital in critical condition after a head injury in John T. Morgan Academy’s game against visiting Southern Academy in Selma, officials said Friday. His death was announced the next day.

The Warrior Games have become a symbol of the military’s changing perceptions about who is fit to serve. Some of the athletes make it to the Paralympics, which start this week in Paris.

A team of neuroscientists, brain specialists and psychiatrists, led by a group at Cambridge University, in the U.K, has found evidence suggesting that minor brain injuries that occur early in life, may have health impacts later on. In their paper published in the journal JAMA Network Open, the group describes how they analyzed and compared MRI scans from hundreds of people participating in the U.K.'s Prevent Dementia study.

The U.S. FDA is ramping up its investigation of the clinical trials that tested an MDMA-based therapy, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Food and Drug Administration investigators this week interviewed four people about the clinical trials sponsored by Lykos Therapeutics, the report said.

Brett Favre on Wednesday announced the release date for Concussed: The American Dream, a movie that documents the tragic story of Super Bowl champion Tyler Sash and his battle with CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). Favre, a three-time National Football League MVP and Hall of Famer, has openly questioned whether or not he has cognitive lapses potentially caused by CTE. He famously played in 321 straight games (by far the NFL record) regardless of whatever injuries he was dealing with – including head injuries.

Proponents of psychedelic medicine had a setback this month. The federal Food and Drug Administration declined to approve a combination of talk therapy and MDMA, also known as ecstasy and “Molly,” as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The application had been hailed as a potential milestone in the treatment of PTSD — and the broader field of psychedelic medicine. But the FDA said it needed more research.

After a young boy in his district died playing football before fully recovering from a concussion, Mr. Pascrell founded the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force to focus federal attention on the prevention and treatment of head trauma in athletes and military personnel.

Proteins left behind by COVID-19 long after initial infection can cause cortisol levels in the brain to plummet, inflame the nervous system and prime its immune cells to hyper-react when another stressor arises, according to new animal research by University of Colorado Boulder scientists. The study, published in the journal Brain Behavior and Immunity, sheds new light on what might underly the neurological symptoms of Long COVID, an intractable syndrome which impacts as many as 35% of those infected with the virus.

Attorneys promised a “state of the art” process to diagnose former players suffering from brain disease. But basic tools still aren’t being used, The Washington Post found, saving the NFL millions.

Some weapons used by the U.S. military are so powerful they can pose a threat to the people who fire them. When weapons are fired, an invisible blast wave travels through the brains of anyone nearby. Exposure to lots of these blasts over time – even low-level ones – has been shown to cause brain health problems for service members.