"It really bothers me that they threw me away that way," he told ABC News.

In their upcoming book, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross promote the new science of neuroaesthetics — how creative pursuits can promote physical and mental health

He was a decorated soldier, a whistle-blower against torture. Then he was undone by his own mind — and a health care system that utterly failed him.

Stephen Casper, a medical historian, argues that the danger of C.T.E. used to be widely acknowledged. How did we unlearn what we once knew?

Caregiving is harder when the medical condition is new and poorly understood.