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05/19/2017

Our local NBC affiliate KING5 aired a story about our study!

http://www.king5.com/news/health/study-highlights-struggle-of-soldiers-who-suffer-brain-injuries/440273102

A first of its kind study is showing the impacts of wartime brain injuries on service members.

05/19/2017

05/12/2017

Press Release from our recent 2017 publication from the National Institutes of Health.

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/News-Events/News-and-Press-Releases/Press-Releases/Study-finds-worsening-outcomes-service-members

NIH-funded research suggests need for new treatment strategies to help veterans recover According to a new study in JAMA Neurology, U.S. military service members who endured a mild concussion after blast injury while deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan may continue to experience mental health symptoms a...

05/12/2017

Our local NBC news affiliate picked up the story and did an interview - Here is the twitter post - We will hopefully have the news story posted once it comes out later May.

https://twitter.com/DanielleLeighK5/status/862463214650408960

“Talking with Dr. Mac Donald about her study on long term impacts of blast-induced concussions ”

05/12/2017

Our recent publication in JAMA Neurology "Early Clinical Predictors of 5-Year Outcome After Concussive Blast Traumatic Brain Injury"
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2618936

This longitudinal case-control study examines 5-year clinical outcomes among active duty military personnel with concussive blast traumatic brain injuries.

05/01/2017

Hot off the Presses!

03/15/2017

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03/15/2017

2017 - New insights into the long-term effects of mild brain injury – Highlights our 2017 Neuroimage: Clinical paper
Published in Nature Reviews Neurology
Link: http://www.nature.com/nrneurol/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nrneurol.2017.32.html

Two reports have shed new light on the long-term consequences of mild brain injury. The research teams studied two different groups of people who are at risk of head injuries: Helen Ling and colleagues examined retired association football players, who were exposed to repeated head–ball and head–pla...

03/15/2017

2017 – 5-Year imaging sequelae of concussive blast injury and relation to early clinical outcome
Published in Neuroimage: Clinical
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158217300396

Current imaging diagnostic techniques are often insensitive to the underlying pathological changes following mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) or concussion so much so that the explicit definition of these uncomplicated mild brain injuries includes the absence of radiological findings. In the US mil...

03/15/2017

2016 – Outcome Trends after US Military Concussive Traumatic Brain Injury
Published in Journal of Neurotrauma
Link: http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/neu.2016.4434

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03/15/2017

2015- Acute post-traumatic stress symptoms and age predict outcome in military blast concussion
Published in Brain – Oxford Journals
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/138/5/1314/404796/Acute-post-traumatic-stress-symptoms-and-age

03/15/2017

2015 - Clinical and imaging assessment of acute combat mild traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan
Published in Neurology
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4516289/

To evaluate whether diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) will noninvasively reveal white matter changes not present on conventional MRI in acute blast-related mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and to determine correlations with clinical measures and recovery.Prospective ...

03/15/2017

2014 – Prospectively Assessed Clinical Outcomes in Concussive Blast vs Nonblast Traumatic Brain Injury Among Evacuated US Military Personnel
Published in JAMA Neurology
Link: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/1881116

Mac Donald et al determine similarities and differences between clinical outcomes in US military personnel with blast-related vs non–blast-related concussive traumatic brain injury and identify domains of impairment that best correlate with overall disability among personnel enrolled from 2010 to...

03/15/2017

2014 - Functional Status after Blast-Plus-Impact Complex Concussive Traumatic Brain Injury in Evacuated United States Military Personnel
Published in Journal of Neurotrauma
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012688/

Fundamental questions remain unanswered about the longitudinal impact of blast-plus-impact complex traumatic brain injuries (TBI) from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This prospective, observational study investigated measures of clinical outcome in US ...

03/15/2017

2014 - Disrupted modular organization of resting-state cortical functional connectivity in U.S. military personnel following concussive ‘mild’ blast-related traumatic brain injury
Published in Neuroimage
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849319/

Blast-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been one of the “signature injuries” of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, neuroimaging studies in concussive ‘mild’ blast-related TBI have been challenging due to ...

03/15/2017

2013 - Cerebellar White Matter Abnormalities following Primary Blast Injury in US Military Personnel
Published in PLOS One
Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0055823

Little is known about the effects of blast exposure on the human brain in the absence of head impact. Clinical reports, experimental animal studies, and computational modeling of blast exposure have suggested effects on the cerebellum and brainstem. In US military personnel with isolated, primary bl...

03/15/2017

2011 – Brain Injuries from Blast, Editorial highlighting our 2011 Paper
Published in the New England Journal of Medicine
Link: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1102187 =article

Editorial from The New England Journal of Medicine — Brain Injuries from Blasts

03/15/2017

2011 - Detection of Blast-Related Traumatic Brain Injury in U.S. Military Personnel
Published in the New England Journal of Medicine
Link: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1008069 =article

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Detection of Blast-Related Traumatic Brain Injury in U.S. Military Personnel