Limiting screen time after a concussion is common advice, but a recent study published in the Journal of Neurotrauma suggests that, for adolescents, allowing moderate screen time after a concussion may be best for recovery.

Last week (March 11th), Malayka Gormally was honored to serve as the State Lead for Washington State on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., joining a group of 234 advocates representing 39 states and territories who met with legislators as part of the Brain Injury Association of America’s National Brain Injury Conference and Awareness Day.

A study found that civilians who had been directly or indirectly exposed to explosive blasts exhibited greater post-concussion syndrome (PCS) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and had reduced white matter (WM) connectivity compared to unexposed civilians.

A recent article published in Neuro Rehab Times details a study that explored the loss and subsequent rebuilding of the self following traumatic brain injury (TBI) through the framing of Jungian analytical psychology.

A recent article published in the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP’s) Research in Action blog by Dr. Daniel Corwin emphasizes the importance of using CHOP’s visio-vestibular examination (VVE) as a part of first-line concussion management in the emergency department.

Olympic gold medal bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor highlights the importance of recognizing concussion as a rehabilitative injury, engaging in active, multidisciplinary rehabilitation, and expanding research on concussion in women.

During this weekend’s Super Bowl, New England Patriots offensive lineman Jared Wilson will wear a Guardian Cap, a helmet cover designed to blunt head impacts. But conflicting claims by the NFL and Guardian Sports bring the benefit of the caps into question, according to a recent article by Ken Belson for The New York Times.

In a first-of-its-kind study with active college football players, researchers investigated the potential impact of a transcranial photobiomodulation (PBM) intervention, using a commercially available headset to deliver near-infrared light to the brain through the skull.

Researchers Kalyani Chaubey et al. recently discovered that the drug P7C3-A20 is able to reverse the brain pathology and cognitive decline of advanced Alzheimer’s disease in mice.

Researchers Liam J. Sherwood et al. recently developed the Fear Avoidance after Concussion Tool (FACT), the first validated patient-reported outcome measure for evaluating fear avoidance following concussion

The Sunflower symbol for invisible disabilities is blossoming around the United States and the world, according to a recent article written by Lauren Fetten and published by Being Patient.

A recent study published in Brain Injury by Jonathan Santana and colleagues found that pediatric concussion characteristics differ significantly with age.

A recent retrospective cohort analysis published in BMJ Open found that concussion patients have a 49% higher long-term risk of being in a serious motor vehicle crash after injury compared to patients with an ankle sprain.

Researchers Frank Peacock et al. found nine clinical characteristics associated with an increased risk of a concussion patient still having symptoms 30 days after a mild TBI (mTBI).

Christina Caron explores a technique called Cognitive Shuffling as a potential tool for those who struggle to fall asleep at night in a 2025 article for The New York Times.

A recent study published in BMC Psychiatry found that post-concussion symptom severity, injury severity, and psychological resilience can predict the risk of post-concussion depression in adults.

A study published in Frontiers in Neurology found that non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) is associated with improvements in persisting concussion symptoms across cognitive, affective (mood), somatic (physical), and vestibular (balance) domains.

A recent study published in Nature found that multiple years of repetitive head impacts can cause changes in the brain at the cellular level that precede and may underlie clustering of hyperphosphorylated tau protein, a key marker of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

A new Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) on traumatic brain injury care was recently published in the Journal of Neurotrauma.

A “proof-of-concept” study found that 8-10 weeks of at-home treatment with a transcranial photobiomodulation device resulted in improvements in cognitive function in adults exposed to repetitive head acceleration events.