Mom Notices Baby's 'Odd-Shaped Head' After Traumatic Birth. Weeks Later, Her 'Uneasy' Feeling Led to a Scary Discovery (Exclusive)

That uneasy feeling pushed McMann to begin researching potential causes of her daughter's head shape. After learning that her ...

Study finds epigenetic signature of pediatric traumatic brain injury, paves way for precision recovery tools

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh discovered a promising new biomarker of "complicated" mild to severe pediatric traumatic brain injury, or TBI.

Signature neural patterns may help predict recovery from traumatic brain injury

After traumatic brain injury (TBI), some patients may recover completely, while others retain severe disabilities. Accurately ...
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Why undisturbed sleep is important to brain injury recovery

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) ...

Newly discovered link between traumatic brain injury in children and epigenetic changes could help personalize treatment for recovering kids

(THE CONVERSATION) A newly discovered biological signal in the blood could help health care teams and researchers better understand how children respond to brain injuries at the cellular level, ...