Research is helping Iraq Army Veteran Lance Caver pursue his acting career as he copes with traumatic brain injury and adult growth hormone deficiency.
A VA pilot study is looking at whether two types of video-game-like apps can help improve cognitive health in older Veterans with a history of traumatic brain injury.
A board-certified neurologist and neuropathologist, Dr. Ann McKee has published more than 70 percent of the world’s cases of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, an ongoing disease that alters brain function.
One VA researcher is studying on whether video-game-like apps can help improve cognitive health in older Veterans with traumatic brain injury.
TIME magazine has named Dr. Ann McKee, chief of neuropathology of the VA Boston Healthcare System, to its 2018 TIME 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Hercules, a 19-month old black Labrador retriever, is the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital Polytrauma Clinic's new therapy dog who makes his rounds each day to visit with patients.
Three women Veterans and an Olympic athlete share their stories to bring awareness to the event, in particular to women Veterans, where TBI has been less studied.
Shooting pool is a pastime many people enjoy, including Veterans and Service members. Navy Corpsman Malik Jones is definitely one of those individuals For years he played pool every weekend with his friends. That all changed, as with most everything else in his life, on July 29, 2017, when he suffered a gunshot to the back of his head while he was stateside in Virginia Beach, Va.
The study found that impairment in memory could not be explained by the number of symptomatic concussions an individual sustained over his/her lifetime and was, instead, driven largely by close exposure to a blast.
VA announced a collaboration encouraging women to donate their brains for the purpose of research of the effects of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
According to psychologist Michael Terman, as many as 60 million […]
VA announced will use two innovative treatments to ease the everyday challenges associated with living with TBI and PTSD.