NEW YORK -- One month after Bob Saget was found dead, his family and the Florida medical examiner's office handling the case announced that the comedian and "Full House" star "passed from head trauma.

Bleeding occurs when trauma damages a blood vessel. When that trauma involves your head—whether the scalp, skull, or brain—it’s considered a head injury. These head injuries range in severity from a ...

Contact sport athletes showed significant brain injury in an autopsy study before signs of CTE appeared. Athletes who experienced repeated head hits had 56% fewer neurons at the depths of the cortical ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a disease of the dead. Clinical features suggestive of the ...

Moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) increased malignant brain tumor risk in a large retrospective study of civilians. This risk persisted when findings were meta-analyzed with data from ...

Individuals who experience a head injury have a 21% greater likelihood of attempting suicide later in life than those without ...

Shane Tamura, the gunman who opened fire at NFL headquarters in Manhattan in July and killed four people, was diagnosed posthumously with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease linked ...

The brain's waste-clearing system significantly declines in function with repeated head impacts, according to a new study of cognitively impaired professional boxers and mixed martial arts fighters.

Anoxic brain injury, also called anoxic encephalopathy or hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, is a life threatening condition resulting from a complete lack of oxygen to the brain. Anoxic brain injury (ABI ...