Conventional wisdom holds that younger brains are better equipped to recover from injury. Their greater flexibility allows them to adapt, rebuild connections and compensate for damage in ways older brains often cannot.

Brain injuries can be devastating to you and your loved ones. Learn some tips to help you on your journey to recover from this traumatic experience.

Laura Moore became a brain injury awareness advocate after sustaining a severe brain injury at age 16. Millions of Americans live with disabilities from traumatic brain injuries, which are often misunderstood. The Brain Injury Association of Kansas ...

A new study highlights how important uninterrupted sleep is to recovery after a traumatic brain injury, finding that fragmented sleep in injured mice is linked to a loss of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep and increased fatigue. Specifically, the research ...

After traumatic brain injury (TBI), some patients may recover completely, while others retain severe disabilities. Accurately evaluating prognosis is challenging in patients on life-sustaining thery. Though resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) can assess ...

Rehabilitation after a severe brain injury is not just about survival—it is about creating the best chance for meaningful recovery. Derrick Allred, MD, from Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital, describes how a disorders of consciousness program ...

Emilia Clarke has compared recovery from a brain injury to "falling off the edge of a cliff without anyone there to catch you". The 39-year-old actress has been open about suffering brain aneurysms in 2011 and 2013, and now she has reflected on how ...

We carry a map of our bodies around in our brains. It's not a literal picture, but an organized pattern of brain activity. So, touch different fingers and different parts of the brain respond. Remarkably,

A 24-year-old Long Island man is fighting back from a severe brain injury after being struck while walking to work. His family just launched a fundraiser to help.

Source: Vitaly Gariev / Unsplash Navigating life after a brain injury, such as encephalitis, carries unknowns and uncertainties for those affected as well as their family and friends. Recent research has discussed the social isolation experienced by those ...