You might expect researchers to better understand TBI given that the Department of Defense has diagnosed nearly 263,000 of them since 2001. But the brain is difficult to study. Current imaging can ...

In the human brain, this is believed to be a mechanistic cause of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, but the phenomenon has yet to be directly observed in brain tissue because the bubbles appear and ...

The daylong conference Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital was held to showcase advances on research into traumatic brain injury. One recurring theme was the devastating toll such injuries have ...

Tissue samples from the brain of the man who killed 18 people during a shooting rampage at a bowling alley and a restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, in October showed evidence of traumatic brain injury ...

The researchers demonstrated the new microscope by using it to image calcium signals, which are indicators of neural activity, in living mouse brain tissue. The system captured these signals at a ...

Each year, about 2.5 million people suffer from traumatic brain injuries (TBI), which often increases their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life.

Currently, in addition to examining brain tumor samples under a microscope, doctors can send them for more thorough genetic sequencing. But not every hospital has access to that technology.