New research will soon make it possible to analyze your own brain.

Discussions about the dangers of concussions in football or hockey are getting more and more is learned about the long-term effects of traumatic brain injuries. But what about lesser known sports like water polo?

Researchers in the United Kingdom found a link between conduct disorder in adolescents and thickness of the outer layer of the brain, breaking down misconceptions that severe antisocial behavior and aggression is simply just a form of teenage rebellion. 

A preclinical study has shown that autism may trace not only to impairments in the brain but also to nerves of the extremities and, possibly, throughout the body. 

PET amyloid imaging does a fine job finding susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease long before symptoms set in, but PET tau imaging is better at showing what’s going on once neuronal injury becomes functionally evident. 

Researchers from Harvard have reported a hypothesis that Alzheimer’s disease could be a result of the human brain’s defense system fighting off infection. The team’s findings were published by Science Translational Medicine.

A recent post on Scout.com’s Mile High Huddle page examined the topic of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in the NFL by detailing research of blast-related injuries suffered by members of the U.S. Military. 

A newly developed PET tracer has shown that tau protein clumps within the brain are better indicators of cognitive impairment related to Alzheimer’s disease than beta amyloid proteins, the current standard for evaluating the disease’s progress, according to results of a new study recently published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.