This animal study was conducted by researchers at Ohio State University and presented at Neuroscience 2023, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience ( ). A surprising thing happened when researchers began exploring whether early-life stress compounds the effects of a childhood head injury on health and behavior later in life. It’s already known… Read More »
Meeting the Needs of Women With Concussion
March 14, 2023 – Jacqueline Theis, a Virginia-based optometrist, was an avid soccer player during her teens. In the course of her athletic career, she had several concussions that triggered severe headaches when she tried to read. “I was told that I had migraines and I’d ‘get over them’ and that I was ‘complaining too… Read More »
Concussions from Football Tied to Long-Term Cognitive Problems
March 10, 2023 — Eric Washington, former linebacker for the University of Kansas’ football team, got involved with sports as a child. “We crashed into each other when we played, and whoever was strongest or most reckless was thought to have the best sports career ahead of them,” he says. He and his friends boxed… Read More »