A head injury is an injury to your brain, skull, or scalp. This can range from a mild bump or bruise to a traumatic brain injury. Common head injuries include concussions, skull fractures, and scalp ...

Bleeding occurs when trauma damages a blood vessel. When that trauma involves your head—whether the scalp, skull, or brain—it’s considered a head injury. These head injuries range in severity from a ...

Individuals who experience a head injury have a 21% greater likelihood of attempting suicide later in life than those without such injuries.

As any fan who has caught a sporting event—baseball, basketball, soccer and especially football—in the past 15 years will tell you, discussion of concussions and traumatic head injuries has dominated ...

Our Brain Injury Program specialists are here to help you get back to your everyday activities after your brain injury. It's our goal to help regain your independence and adapt to your new lifestyle.

Increased risk for suicide may be associated with head injuries, highlighting the connection between head trauma and ...

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation — two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. When the injury is to the brain, the balance is that ...

Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) may reactivate latent herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) in the brain and contribute to neurodegeneration and development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology, a ...