As a result, someone can sustain a brain injury even without any direct blow to the head. Rather than producing one clearly visible injury, blast exposure tends to cause widespread microscopic damage.

Repeated head knocks cause long-term damage to the delicate blood-brain barrier, potentially driving chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative condition that affects some former ...

Brain damage isn’t limited to football players and boxers who take repeated blows to the head. Scientists say chronic job stress can also alter brain structure in ways that harm memory, focus and ...

An explosion does not need to strike the head to injure the brain. When a blast occurs, it generates a sudden pressure wave that can pass through the body and skull in milliseconds, potentially ...