Traumatic brain injury

Jasmin and Wally Blair, in a screen capture from a DOD video.<br>DOD

Living with TBI: Veteran injured in Iraq in '07 is on to a second career as a teacher

Marine Corps Capt. Wally Blair suffered a traumatic brain injury about three weeks into his deployment to Iraq in September 2007 when a roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle he was riding in. Eight years passed before Blair was diagnosed with TBI and today he is thriving, even working toward a second career as a social studies teacher.

A doctor points to an MRI reading of a patient who has epilepsy.<br>MCT file photo

Study: Iraq-Afghanistan veterans who develop epilepsy more at risk of death

Veterans who develop epilepsy were 2.6 times more likely to die during a five-year span than their peers, according to a study presented at an American Epilepsy Society meeting Sunday in Houston.

In a January, 2014 file photo, a patient with mild traumatic brain injury has a brain scan done in an MRI machine at St. Louis University Hospital as part of a study of TBI in veterans. <br>Robert Cohen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS

Study tracks which part of brain is particularly vulnerable to injury

Blasts from explosives have long been known to cause mild traumatic brain injury in combat veterans, but a new study by Seattle experts sheds light on how — and where — lasting harm may occur.

Some say oxygen therapy could correct mild traumatic brain injuries; others are skeptical

A growing group of scientists and physicians say that hyperbaric treatment, which exposes patients to pure oxygen at higher-than-normal air pressure, may help in the treatment of mild traumatic brain injuries, or mTBIs.
JBLM breaks ground on $11M traumatic brain-injury center

By the time Staff Sgt. Spencer Milo arrived for treatment outside of Washington, D.C., he had suffered two traumatic brain injuries in two different wars and was taking more than a dozen different medications.
Robotic exoskeleton helps vet with brain injury walk again
UM testing goggles that can detect concussions immediately
Vet suicide prevention bill moves forward in Senate
VA reform bill saves unique pilot program for veterans with TBI
Study links veterans' traumatic brain injuries to Alzheimer's
Study: Lack of progress prompts a third of veterans with TBI, PTSD to drop out of treatment
Long-term effects of TBI similar no matter what the cause, study says
UCSF team wins $26 million grant to build brain implant

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