People who take part in these sports might think they are in control of the risks, but brain injuries can happen fast and change a person’s life forever. These injuries can cause immediate death or lead to lifelong disabilities that affect every part of a person’s life. Many people who get hurt by perfect brain injury delivery systems say they had no idea how bad it could be until it was too late.

In a significant paradigm shift, 50 years in the making, 94 experts from 14 countries have proposed a new, multidimensional framework for classifying traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Since our May 1 article, CDC’s Entire Traumatic Brain Injury Team Eliminated, President Trump has sent his 2026 budget request to Congress, and it includes the elimination of the budget for the CDC’s TBI team.

In a longitudinal study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers discovered that over 18 years, 13% of older Americans suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

In a multimodal study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Natalie Gilmore et al. found that higher cumulative blast exposure was associated with decreased brain function and lower quality of life. According to a New York Times article, the damage seen in these brains was not CTE but a new pathology.

Neuroscientist Richard Sima has written a terrific article for the Washington Post explaining what concussions are–and the serious nature of these mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI).

Dr. Monica Vavilala is is an anesthesiologist and director of Harborview’s Injury Prevention and Research Center, based in Seattle. In her interview, she describes the Return-to-Learn pilot Program that she and her team have created, which, thanks to a grant from the CDC, they will implement and study at 24 public high schools across Washington State.