Reported symptoms were more accurate for concussion diagnosis than objective cognitive testing was, a case-control study of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes found. Diagnostic ...

Experts at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute are now using a new diagnostic blood test developed by Abbott, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, to ...

The first sentence of the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee’s Concussion Diagnosis and Management Protocol – more commonly referred to in the truncated "NFL Concussion Protocol" – reads as such: ...

A portable device developed by University of Missouri researchers that analyzes concussions in real time is advancing toward ...

The management of traumatic brain injury and concussion in children should feature almost immediate cognitive effort and a ...

A test used to gauge whether a college athlete has suffered a concussion is right only half the time and may be useless, new research finds. The test used by the NCAA, which oversees college sports, ...

When college athletes are evaluated for a possible concussion, the diagnosis is based on an athletic trainer or team physician's assessment of three things: the player's symptoms, physical balance and ...

Objective To examine prevention strategies and potential modifiable risk factors (MRFs) for sport-related concussion (SRC) and head impact/head acceleration event (HAE) outcomes in female, woman ...

College student-athletes who reported three or more concussions during their athletic careers had worse mental and ...

Bethesda, Maryland-based BrainScope, which has developed mobile, non-invasive devices that help medical professionals assess Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), raised $2.5 million, according to an SEC ...