Laura Brydges, pictured with her dog, Mickey, designed a symbol and wallet card to alert people to her invisible disability, a traumatic brain injury as a result of a car accident 10 years ago.

NPR News/ProPublica Investigation: Army commanders have routinely denied Purple Hearts to soldiers who have sustained mild traumatic brain injuries in Iraq, despite regulations that make such ...

The U.S. Army honors soldiers wounded or killed in combat with the Purple Heart, a powerful symbol designed to recognize their sacrifice and service. Yet Army commanders have routinely denied ...

Dubbed the “creativity circuit,” damage to this area due to injury or brain disease resulted in both decreases and increases in creativity. Tatiana Shepeleva – stock.adobe.com ...

How the Brain Maps Symbols to Numbers. ... "Damage to certain parts of the parietal lobe in humans can elicit very specific deficits in dealing with numbers." On supporting science journalism.

Brain damage caused by COVID-19 may not show up on routine tests, study finds COVID-19 can severely injure the brain, but these changes can go undetected — and last for months.

Damage to the part of the brain that controls social emotions changes the way people respond to thorny moral problems, demonstrating the role of empathy and other feelings in life-or-death decisions.