Brain health, and concussions, start to receive due attention

. Invest­ing in brain health (CNBC): “No more than 10 years ago, I played for a league where I felt the pres­sures both inter­nal­ly and exter­nal­ly to return to the field and keep play­ing no mat­ter what. The words “con­cus­sion” and “TBI” (trau­mat­ic brain injury) were not fre­quent­ly used 

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Expanding the brain health toolkit with mobile neurobehavioral tests — aka a “brain thermometer”?

Army touts ‘brain ther­mome­ter’ as front-line tool (Army Times): “Army medics will soon use what’s been dubbed a “brain ther­mome­ter”: a mobile phone appli­ca­tion that can, with­in min­utes, pro­vide health pro­fes­sion­als data to help diag­nose and mea­sure a sol­dier’s injuries… The Defense Auto­mat­ed Neu­robe­hav­ioral Assess­ment, pro­duced by Anthro­Tron­ix, includes 

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Understanding the impact of concussions on the brain

What a con­cus­sion looks like inside your brain (PBS): “But what hap­pens to the brain right after a con­cus­sion? Researchers at the Nation­al Insti­tute of Health peered into the brains of mice and watched how a trau­mat­ic brain injury pro­gress­es over a day. 

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The Crash Reel: Upcoming HBO documentary on traumatic brain injury & recovery

We just learned about upcom­ing HBO doc­u­men­tary The Crash Reel, based on the sto­ry of U.S. cham­pi­on snow­board­er Kevin Pearce, his trau­mat­ic brain injury, and his recov­ery. If you live in or near Wash­ing­ton, DC, you can enjoy screen­ings in: AFI Sil­ver Spring: Thurs­day June 20th, Fri­day June 21st Nat­ur­al Muse­um of Amer­i­can His­to­ry: Thurs­day June 20th Descrip­tion: Train­ing to compete…

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