Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore are collecting images of children’s brains in order to build an imaging databank that can be searched by doctors around the world to help diagnose and treat neurological disorders.

Despite research warning of the seriousness of concussions sustained while playing football, some players feel pressure to hide their injuries and return to the game before it is safe to do so.

At the University of Florida, a radiologist and mechanical engineer have teamed up to design the next generation of football helmets, created to improve protection from head injuries that are rampant in the sport.

When you look at your brain on an MRI scan, what do you see? Are you filled with a better understanding the abstract “self”?

The National Institutes of Health have recently announced eight projects largely funded by the NFL that will study the long-term effects of repeated head injuries and will hopefully develop better tools for diagnosing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and concussions, according to an article published on Dec. 17 by NPR.org.

For patients who have suffered a brain injury, brain rehabilitation could be the key to putting a smile back on their faces.

A team of researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the Polish Wroclaw University of Technology have created a new technique with multi-photon lasers that could attack clumps of amyloid protein plaques, which are the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, reported Smithsonian.com on Nov. 8.

A new method for predicting time to full-time care, nursing home residence, or death for patients with Alzheimer’s disease has been validated by a Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) research team, as reported by the CUMC Newsroom on Nov. 7.