Nooa Marantz-Pylkkanen is a busy 8-year-old boy who spends his time doing gymnastics, Tae Kwon Do, archery, and soccer, and he loves video games. Unlike most third graders, he also spends time at scientific conferences and attended his first when he was just six months old, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual meeting in San […]
Teasing Apart Depression from Traumatic Brain Injury
Every time an external force severely injures the brain – whether through a car accident, fall, war injury, or sports trauma – it leaves a lasting impact. For people with traumatic brain injury (TBI), one of the leading causes of death and injury worldwide, depression is a common symptom, occurring in half of all patients. […]
New Brain Imaging Techniques Can Improve Testing for Mild Concussions
Guest Post by Nick Wan, Utah State University Last year, college football player Kosta Karageorge committed suicide, with his last text sent to his mother was “Sorry if I am an embarrassment, but these concussions have my head all [messed] up.” Two years prior, NFL player Junior Seau committed suicide via chest wound, leaving his brain […]
