Why scientists ignore the top cause of traumatic brain injuries

Over the course of the last year of our relationship, I probably sustained at least three concussions, though none were formally diagnosed. Valera, an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who runs a brain-imaging research lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, estimates that millions of women and people of marginalized genders have suffered from both intimate partner violence and untreated concussions. Concussion research has focused primarily on the relatively tiny population of men who play professional football.