A recent report by Memmini and colleagues identifies key principles of return-to-learn for college athletes to explore how non-athletes fare in the college classroom after a concussion.

A recent study reported results on a handheld device, tested on a pig model, that can scan the retina of the eye to detect biochemical markers produced by the brain immediately after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).

“Veterans who reported having at least one traumatic brain injury or TBI at any time in their life had lower cognitive scores in later life, compared to twin siblings who did not experience a TBI,” observed Dr. Chanti-Ketterl during a recent podcast about a twin study of WWII veterans (published in Neurology), of which she was the first author.

Some people recover quickly from headache after concussion, but others take much longer. How do we know as soon as possible what will be the case for someone who has had a concussion? A recent study in Cephalalgia by Marbil and colleagues tracked the progression of headaches over time in children after a new concussion. They found that post-concussion headaches were common and were more severe in those with a history of headache prior to concussion.