A new study suggests that bright light therapy may improve sleep, cognition, emotion and brain function following mild traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Kevin P. Lucey and his wife, Joyce T. Lucey, are spending Memorial Day in Washington, D.C., with thousands of other families grieving the loss of their loved ones who served in the U.S. military.
For most of us, this injury occurs with bicycles and sports. It’s far too common an issue for our military veterans. One out of five soldiers return from combat having suffered some type of head injury from explosive blasts. The Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston is leading research on long-term effects.
Many WWII veterans felt lost after returning home. They dropped out of school and couldn’t focus on their postwar lives. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Dale Maharidge explores what happened to them in his new book, Bringing Mulligan Home.
Brian Menish is a Herndon High School alum, a fine arts graduate with degrees from Shepherd University and West Virginia University, and an artist living with a Traumatic Brain Injury.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded $6 million to a team of researchers, including MIT’s Sangeeta Bhatia, to develop nanotechnology therapies for the treatment of traumatic brain injury and associated infections.
Traumatic brain injury and PTSD hurt U.S. soldiers in World War II just like they’re damaging soldiers—and their families—today. New research also finds that brain trauma may be partly to blame for the staggering rates of suicide among vets.
Chronic trauma can inflict lasting damage to brain regions associated with fear and anxiety. Previous imaging studies of people with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, have shown that these brain regions can over-or under-react in response to stressful tasks, such as recalling a traumatic event or reacting to a photo of a threatening face.
Read more at http://scienceblog.com/63207/for-ptsd-combat-vets-fear-circuitry-in-the-brain-never-rests/#ezg0u9A2M9TKZdqX.99
Shocking statistics from Canadian researchers indicate that chronically homeless men who drink heavily have 400 times the number of head injuries as the general population.
Being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder could get easier following the upcoming annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association where the group’s fifth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) is slated to be released in San Francisco