When Gabe Brown woke from a coma last January at UPMC Mercy hospital, he could do little more than tilt his head and shift ...

A new study led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine clinical scientists and UPMC neurosurgeons challenges ...

Watersmeet, and Sarah Elfreth introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen care for Veterans living with traumatic brain ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine establish an ad hoc committee to conduct a study to review the latest published ...

Since 2019, the year Revel Bikes was launched, it has collaborated with LoveYourBrain (LYB) fundraisers that directly support the mission of making a world in which everyone impacted by brain injury ...

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.

A nanomaterial based on a platform developed by Professor Samuel Stupp crosses the blood-brain barrier and targets harmful ...

Cooling down a damaged brain can protect neurons by suppressing inflammation. 1 But lowering the body temperature externally comes with a host of complications and can lead to impaired clotting and ...

Strokes are a medical emergency, yet imaging can capture only snapshots of how brain damage develops in the hours and days ...

A man who suffered a catastrophic brain injury in a car accident 10 years ago says he has lost several jobs as the incident ...

Anoxic brain injury, also called anoxic encephalopathy or hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, is a life threatening condition resulting from a complete lack of oxygen to the brain. Anoxic brain injury (ABI ...