https://www.brainline.org/rss/allcontent.xml Receive the latest headlines and content related to traumatic brain injury delivered daily courtesy of BrainLine.org. en https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/kids-brain-injuries-thrive-camp-federal-research-funding-flux Campers, ranging in age from 10 to 21, have been coming to Camp Cranium in Pennsylvania's rural Columbia County since 2008. Some of their brain injuries are so severe that they have to relearn basics, from talking to tying their shoelaces. Some use wheelchairs or crutches. But during a week at camp, they climb rock walls, swim and whiz down a zip line through the lush forest. The existence of Camp Cranium, as well as a handful of others like it, is a response to a decades-long national trend: More people, including children, now survive crises resulting in brain injury than they did in the 1980s. But recently, efforts to track and prevent one type of brain injury — traumatic ones — are in flux after Congress didn't renew a law to further research and prevention of traumatic brain injuries, and the Trump administration fired hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the team tracking traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs. Thursday, August 27, 2026 - 11:01am agilleland https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/kids-brain-injuries-thrive-camp-federal-research-funding-flux https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/many-nfl-players-get-brain-disease-why-hasnt-osha-intervened The most notorious form of workplace illness in the United States might be black lung disease. Scientists say that 10 to 20 percent of coal miners who have worked 25 years or more have gotten it. It has long been considered an epidemic.Imagine an American job that is less safe than that, where one in four workers (and maybe far more) ends up with an incurable, degenerative brain disease that withers the mind, sometimes after just a few years of exposure.New research shows that 25 percent of all former N.F.L. players who died during a recent six-year period had the degenerative brain disease known as C.T.E. — a tally that does not include the nearly three-quarters of deceased players who were not tested for the disease, which can be diagnosed only posthumously. Tuesday, August 25, 2026 - 3:31pm agilleland https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/many-nfl-players-get-brain-disease-why-hasnt-osha-intervened https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/your-child-plays-football-how-can-you-minimize-risk-cte Two things are true: Football has a hold on American culture, and tackle football is not good for brains. Navigating that contradiction can be especially tricky for parents of children who play the game.Twenty years into the era of C.T.E. awareness, parents know enough to be worried but perhaps not enough to avoid the risks entirely. Tuesday, August 25, 2026 - 3:29pm agilleland https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/your-child-plays-football-how-can-you-minimize-risk-cte https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/least-25-former-nfl-players-who-died-between-2016-and-2021-had-cte-study-finds While professional football and the degenerative brain disease known as CTE have long been linked, true prevalence has remained an open question. A new study finds that, among former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021, at least a quarter had CTE. Tuesday, August 25, 2026 - 1:21pm agilleland https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/least-25-former-nfl-players-who-died-between-2016-and-2021-had-cte-study-finds https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/studys-alarming-finding-least-1-4-nfl-players-gets-brain-disease Since the degenerative brain disease known as C.T.E. was first scientifically linked to football about 20 years ago, and as hundreds of former professional football players have been diagnosed with the disease after their deaths, a haunting question has lingered:Just how many N.F.L. players will end up with C.T.E.?New data provides a sobering indication: At least one in four of all the people who have played in the N.F.L. might expect to end up with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study of hundreds of cases over a recent six-year period. Tuesday, August 25, 2026 - 12:32pm agilleland https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/studys-alarming-finding-least-1-4-nfl-players-gets-brain-disease https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/pentagon-needs-more-resources-monitor-blast-exposed-troops-brain-health-gao-finds Pentagon efforts to monitor the impact of blasts on service members’ brain health have improved in recent years, but programs meant to track their exposure and catch potential cognitive changes are under-resourced, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. Thursday, August 20, 2026 - 10:58am agilleland https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/pentagon-needs-more-resources-monitor-blast-exposed-troops-brain-health-gao-finds https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/sports-leagues-concussion-guidelines-must-be-broadened-brain-health-concerns-rise Recently, the Australian Football League (AFL) was rocked when it was revealed a Geelong player with a history of concussion had been asked to waive his legal rights to claim for any future brain trauma.It was the latest in a series of concussion issues the AFL has had to address in recent years.But the focus on concussion is problematic. Indeed, concussions are not necessarily the most pressing issue in contact sports when it comes to brain injuries.The bigger concern should be chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Thursday, August 20, 2026 - 10:58am agilleland https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/sports-leagues-concussion-guidelines-must-be-broadened-brain-health-concerns-rise https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/pentagon-shine-program-researches-traumatic-brain-injury-treatments The Department of Defense (DOD) has launched a new research program to develop treatments for traumatic brain injuries (TBI).A new program called Selective Harnessing of Intrinsic Neuroplasticity Engineering (SHINE) is pushing through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the DOD, developing non-invasive tools to "enhance the brain's ability to adapt and rewire itself" when it is injured. Thursday, August 20, 2026 - 10:57am agilleland https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/pentagon-shine-program-researches-traumatic-brain-injury-treatments https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/u-clinical-trials-results-add-growing-body-evidence-walking-can-help-ptsd-recovery Researchers in Alberta have been exploring how walking combined with psychotherapy can help in cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They say the results of a recent clinical trial build on a growing body of evidence indicating the treatment is effective. Thursday, August 20, 2026 - 10:56am agilleland https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/u-clinical-trials-results-add-growing-body-evidence-walking-can-help-ptsd-recovery https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/real-world-study-oregons-nonmedical-psilocybin-program-shows-promise New research on the experiences of people who took magic mushrooms through Oregon's homegrown psychedelic industry — the first program of its kind in the U.S. — is offering a largely favorable picture. Thursday, August 20, 2026 - 10:56am agilleland https://www.brainline.org/news/2026/08/real-world-study-oregons-nonmedical-psilocybin-program-shows-promise