In recent years, there’s been a lot of media coverage surrounding head trauma among football players, but there's been little attention paid to another group that also experiences serious head trauma at an alarming rate: domestic violence survivors.

In fact, research shows that they may experience head trauma even more than football players but are unfortunately often undiagnosed. trauma-domestic-violence.html">According to some estimates, 1.6 million survivors of domestic abuse will experience brain injuries annually.

For more on this, The Takeaway spoke with Rachel Ramirez,  the Founder and Director of The Center on Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury, a project of the Ohio Domestic Violence Network, and Eve Valera, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a leading researcher on traumatic brain injuries among survivors of domestic violence. 

Plus, The Takeaway hears from Davine Manson, a volunteer with the nonprofit PINK Concussions. She's also starting her own organization to help women who’ve experienced domestic violence.