June 3, 2011 — In a new study of military personnel with blast-related subacute traumatic brain injury sustained during combat, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) detected abnormalities consistent with ...

Nicole Herling was praying for brain disease. That’s rarely happy news. But for her, it offered a potential answer to a haunting question: why, in less than a year, had her brother transformed from a ...

Repeated exposure to explosive blasts has the potential to cause brain injuries, but there is currently no diagnostic test for these injuries In a study of 30 active-duty United States SOF personnel, ...

WASHINGTON — It's been called "the signature wound " of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly 350,000 military personnel suffered some form of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) since 2000, according to ...

An Army reservist who killed 18 and wounded 13 in a mass shooting in Maine last October had signs of brain damage that likely came from blast overpressure — a little understood form of long-term ...

Efforts to improve care and research for service members suffering from brain injuries are included in both the Senate and House versions of the annual must-pass defense policy bill, raising the ...

TBI triggers both primary mechanical damage and delayed secondary injuries like inflammation and neurodegeneration. Cognitive effects may include memory loss, mood swings, and impaired social judgment ...

A study by New York and Rocky Mountain U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs researchers showed blast exposure can cause intestinal permeability, a condition that can lead to gut bacteria entering the ...