May 5, 2009 (Seattle, Washington) — For the first time, a new imaging study that employs diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) shows that veterans who sustain mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) caused ...

We tested the hypothesis that blast-related traumatic brain injury causes traumatic axonal injury, using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an advanced form of magnetic resonance imaging that is ...

Traumatic brain injuries have long affected military service members, with the Department of Defense reporting nearly 516,000 ...

A RAND Corp. study in 2008 estimated that IED blast events were so frequent that perhaps 320,000 troops may have suffered mild TBI. Authors of the study say the best way to confirm changes in the ...

However, blast-induced injuries can be hard to diagnose because they don’t leave signs that can be detected during an exam, even when using advanced medical imaging.

Traumatic brain injury ... during injury with high-speed imaging, ... Microcavitation as a neuronal damage mechanism in an in vitro model of blast traumatic brain injury.

New research has revealed that veterans exposed explosive bomb blasts are still at risk of damage in their brain’s white matter – even when brain injury symptoms do not present.

In one project, researchers will use brain imaging and blood sampling from Veterans diagnosed with chronic TBI to determine whether their brain’s immune system has been activated on a long-term basis ...

“By combining studies in human postmortem brain tissue, from rodent models of blast TBI, and from human brain imaging, we get a clearer view of the relationship between blast TBI and glymphatic ...

It's well known that TBI is a risk factor for later Alzheimer's disease. But what about blast exposure without contact injury? New research suggested it also increases the risk.

Nicole Herling speaks to a reporter about her brother’s traumatic brain injury, which researchers believe was “likely” caused by exposure to blasts during his experience in the Army Reserves.