A newly discovered biological signal in the blood could help health care teams and researchers better understand how children respond to brain injuries at the cellular level, according to our research ...

Is your infant patient having seizures because they rolled off a bed? Or are the seizures a sign of neurologic head trauma after being hit or shaken by a parent? Pediatricians and other clinicians ...

Brain injuries are a leading cause of death and long-term disability in infants. Among the most common is neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), which affects one to three in 1,000 live ...

Continuously recording the brain's electrical signals and examining how those impulses evolve over time is a more reliable way to identify infants at risk for brain injury, compared with doing ...

A UW Health pediatric emergency doctor highlights the importance of safety precautions during winter activities to prevent ...

Bleeding occurs when trauma damages a blood vessel. When that trauma involves your head—whether the scalp, skull, or brain—it’s considered a head injury. These head injuries range in severity from a ...

A 3-year-old boy arrived at the emergency department of Meuhedet in Ashdod unresponsive and with his eyes closed after falling and hitting his head. The ER team managed to wake him after several long ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lacey W. Heinsberg, University of Pittsburgh and Amery Treble-Barna, University of ...