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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Brain abnormalities found among those experiencing blast-related mild traumatic brain injury. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 04 / 150422121729.htm ...

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.

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.

Researchers backed by an $8 million U.S. Department of Defense grant will explore how to better prevent traumatic brain injury, or TBI, in military personnel exposed to blast shock waves. The ...

MRI shows brain damage in a surprisingly high percentage of active duty military personnel who suffered blast-related mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), according to a new study appearing online in ...

Blast Shock Revealed: These two postage-stamp-size sections of the cerebral cortex were stained to highlight the protein marker of brain damage. The brain tissue at left (gray coloring) is normal ...