Science & Medicine: For veterans with traumatic brain injuries, AI offers a new weapon against post-traumatic headaches

Texas Public Radio
May 10, 2026

Don McGeary, PhD, a professor with UT Health San Antonio and STRONG STAR collaborator, speaks with Texas Public Radio’s Bonnie Petrie in a recent episode of the “Petrie Dish” to discuss advances in treating chronic headaches following a head injury, such as a concussion. He and his team already have shown great success with a cognitive behavioral therapy they designed specifically for post-traumatic headaches, with clinical trials showing the therapy significantly reduces headache disability and commonly co-occurring post-traumatic stress. He believes the benefits could be even greater with more personalized treatment, so he’s training an artificial intelligence machine learning model to, among other things, help patients better predict their headaches so they can take advance steps to avoid or better cope with them.

Learn more about this exciting research; read and listen to the interview here.