Category Archives: Traumatic Brain Injury

Over the last 12 years, many Soldiers have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with wounds, some visible and some not, said a leader in Army Medicine.

Carlsbad, California- and Alachua, Florida-based Banyan Biomarkers has raised $6M in a Series A funding, to go toward development of a diagnostic test for traumatic brain injury.

The Pentagon has established the world’s first and only brain tissue repository dedicated to helping researchers better understand traumatic brain injury in service members and improve care for victims.

Jason Probst described what it was like last year in January when he was driving a vehicle down a street and hit a road side bomb in Afghanistan.

Sara Lewis sustained a traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident in 1977. Now 58, she’s completing a master’s degree in speech language pathology through James Madison University’s distance learning program. She is also starting a peer support group for other adults with acquired brain injury. The first meeting is on Thursday at Community Brain Injury Services, The Denbigh House, in Newport News.

Traumatic brain injuries — including sports concussions — are extremely dangerous, and can even cause sports-related deaths. Learn how to avoid and recognize TBIs.

The U.S. military has established what may be the world’s first repository of brain tissue for the study of traumatic brain injury (TBI), which is said to be the “signature” injury of the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Department of Defense has established the world’s first brain tissue repository to help researchers understand the underlying mechanisms of traumatic brain injury in service members.

Ground is breaking Thursday on Intrepid Spirit 3 – a mental health facility at Fort Campbell, Ky., that will provide services to members of the military suffering from post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury and related afflictions.

Ground is breaking Thursday on Intrepid Spirit 3 – a mental health facility at Fort Campbell, Ky., that will provide services to members of the military suffering from post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury and related afflictions.