traumatic brain injury

VA exhibit at New Orleans medical center designed to stimulate dialogue and build bridges between Veterans and their families and Americans who wish to welcome them home.

Army Veteran Adam Greathouse was in a coma for two months. Today, he’s a volunteer and an Ambassador for VA’s Summer Sports Clinic, helping other Veterans conquer their challenges.

VA researchers are hoping to improve the experience of parents who are caregivers for their adult children who have served in the military and are battling severe physical or mental injuries.

One VA researcher is studying on whether video-game-like apps can help improve cognitive health in older Veterans with traumatic brain injury.

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.

TBI is often caused by a strong impact to the head or from an object penetrating the brain that may or may not result in a loss of consciousness.

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.

The annual event assembled more than 350 participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of TBI and concussion.

Researchers still do not have a firm grasp on what causes light sensitivity in people with traumatic brain injury, but they do have an idea of the types and characteristics of light that can be problematic.