Veterans and Traumatic Brain Injury

Important Websites

Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center [DVBIC]

The mission of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) is to serve active duty military, their dependents and veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) through state-of-the-art medical care, innovative clinical research initiatives and educational programs.

US Dept. of Veterans Affairs

This site is a storehouse of facility and key staff information within 1280 VA facilities, maintained on a regular basis by editors and administrators nationwide throughout the VA network.

US Dept. of Defense Military Health System
TriCare

Electronic Pamphlets and Articles

TBI and PolyTrauma Special Issue [Journal of Rehabilitation, Research and Development]
Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) [pdf document]
TBI in the US: A Call for Public/Private Cooperation [pdf document]

Videos

Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury [29 minutes]

News Items

Soldiers, professional athletes share threat from brain injuries (2.1.12)
Insights into rates and impact of mTBI among military personnel in Iraq/Afghanistan (1.23.12)
Military Still Struggling to Treat Troops With Brain Injuries (1.18.12)
As service members' return from Iraq, U.S. should focus on traumatic brain injuries (1.12.12)
Testing program fails soldiers, leaving brain injuries undetected (12.29.11)
New database tracks Marine head injuries (12.22.11)
Blood test shows promise in diagnosing TBI (12.22.11)
Writing may help troops with TBI (12.19.11)
Research shows Rx with hyperbaric oxygen improved TBI and PTSD in vets (12.1.11)
Better Coordination of Psychological Health, Traumatic Brain Injury Programs for Military Needed (11.29.11)
Battlefield Acupuncture Eases Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (11.14.11)
Better Coordination of Psychological Health, Traumatic Brain Injury Programs for Military Needed (11.10.11)
Military steps up effort to detect brain injuries (11.2.11)
More troops' mild brain trauma diagnosed (11.2.11)
Invisible injuries of war to be felt for decades (11.2.11)
Sleep disorders plague vets with head trauma (11.2.11)
Looking for a Link Between Seizures and Migraine In Soldiers with TBI (11.2.11)
National Veterans Foundation Launches WhatIsTBI.org (8.29.11)
Pentagon center for brain injuries failing vets: GAO (8.29.11)
Army rethinks treatment for brain injuries (7.25.11)
UVa researchers eye technology to improve diagnosis of troop brain injuries (6.27.11)
Study of troops with traumatic brain injury hints at specific sites of damage (6.27.11)
Army uses SPECT scans for head injuries (5.25.11)
Returning To The Battlefield, With A Brain Injury (5.25.11)
Traumatic Brain Injury Rehab Bill Offers Warriors New Hope (5.25.11)
House Passes Sessions' Traumatic Brain Injury Amendment (5.25.11)
Did Navy's Brain Injury Subjects Receive Substandard Care? (5.11.11)
IED shock waves found to cause concussions (5.11.11)
VA Research Develops Brain Scan To Detect TBI (5.11.11)
Returning To The Battlefield, With A Brain Injury (5.11.11)
Defense passes on Web-only traumatic brain injury tests (4.7.11)
Did Navy's Brain Injury Subjects Receive Substandard Care? (4.7.11)
U.S. Military To Address Brain Injuries (3.28.11)
New guidelines for awarding Purple Hearts to soldiers with brain injuries (3.28.11)
Brain injuries: Recovery is possible (3.28.11)
VA rolls out 'smart home' project to rehabilitate brain injury patients (1.18.11)
DVBIC Launches New PSAs on Traumatic Brain Injury (12.16.10)
Combat-Related Blast-Induced Neurotrauma: A Public Health Problem? (12.16.10)
Face Shield May Prevent Military Brain Injuries (12.16.10)
Traumatic Brain Injuries a Growing Concern for Soldiers (11.10.10)
Brain injuries taxing military (10.26.10)
Military better at treating brain injuries (10.06.10)
Researchers: Navy SEALS' new brain injury test has high false-positive rate (9.22.10)
Traumatic brain injury bill offers warriors new hope (9.21.10)
Brain wars: How the military is failing its wounded - an ongoing investigation into soldiers' traumatic brain injuries (9.17.10)
Army studies concussions' effects on bomb techs (9.16.10)
Troops With Traumatic Brain Injury Face Long Road to Recovery (8.18.10)
Soldiers with brain injuries at higher risk of epilepsy decades later (8.03.10)
Troops suffer long-term brain impacts from shock waves, Seattle study finds (7.09.10)
Military fails on brain-test follow-ups (7.09.10)
Military Still Failing To Diagnose, Treat Brain Injuries (7.05.10)
Physical therapy recommendations for service members with mild traumatic brain injury (6.24.10)
The role of speech-language pathology and audiology in the optimal management of the service member returning from Iraq or Afghanistan with a blast-related head injury (6.24.10)
Posttraumatic stress symptoms in OIF/OEF service members with blast-related and non-blast-related mild TBI (6.23.10)
Symptoms in military service members after blast mTBI with and without associated injuries (6.23.10)
Military Traumatic Brain Injury and Blast (6.22.10)
Intercontinental aeromedical evacuation of patients with traumatic brain injuries during Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom (6.18.10)
Study raises questions about military's brain injury assessment tool (6.18.10)
Pentagon enlists universities to collaborate on brain implants to repair brain injury (5.26.10)
Military aims for better concussion detection (4.02.10)
Traumatic brain injuries can occur outside of combat, too (3.23.10)
Pentagon sets brain trauma protocols (3.23.10)
Military report shows how many Canadian soldiers suffered mild brain injuries (2.23.10)
Study Measures Traumatic Brain Injury (2.16.10)
Back From Iraq ... With A Traumatic Brain Injury (11.25.09)
Traumatic brain injury: an overview of pathobiology with emphasis on military populations (11.11.09)
Traumatic brain injury: an overview of pathobiology with emphasis on military populations (10.29.09)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Mediates the Relationship Between Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Health and Psychosocial Functioning in Veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (10.28.09)
SFC Fluidics, LLC Receives Funding from US Army for Development of Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnostic Device (10.09.09)
Mullen seeks brain-injury limit (10.08.09)
'Promising' technology can aid brain-injured soldiers (09.24.09)
Helmet sensors providing data that may decrease brain injury (09.17.09)
Brain Injury Association of America Urges President Obama to Include Cognitive Rehabilitation for Returning Service Members as a Part of TRICARE Coverage (07.07.09)
U.S. officials say war concussions overdiagnosed (05.04.09)
BrainScope positioned to identify traumatic brain injuries suffered by military troops (04.21.09)
Despite improved TBI outreach, critics say needs not met (03.09.09)
Wartime troop brain injures could reach 360,000 (03.09.09)
New test measures cognitive changes in deployed troops (02.20.09)
Head injuries a commonality among recent veterans (01.27.09)
War Vets With Headaches Could Have Brain Problems (01.20.09)
Severe and Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury in the Context of War (01.09.09)
Traumatic Brain Injuries Linked to Long-Term Health Issues for Iraq Vets (01.02.09)
The physics of explosives and blast helmets (12.29.08)
Air Force's Stands Up First Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic For Wounded Warriors (11.20.08)
Out of Iraq emerges hope for those with the severest of head injuries (10.03.08)
VA to increase benefits for mild brain trauma (10.01.08)
In the line of fire: traumatic brain injury among Iraq War veterans (09.17.08)
Iraq veterans fight brain injuries with unique VA program (09.04.08)
War Veterans Concussions Are Often Overlooked (08.27.08)
U.S. Department of Labor initiative aids employment of veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (08.27.08)
Department of Defense awards $35 million to support local brain injury research (08.19.08)
Crystal clue in army brain injury (08.13.08)