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Art Therapy for TBI

Watch how art therapy can provide a non-verbal opportunity to process things that may be uncomfortable to put into words.

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Dr. Ann Mckee on Why We Need More Brain Donations Among Veterans in Order to Study Military CTE

Dr. Ann McKee: We Need More Brain Donations Among Veterans in Order to Study Military CTE

CTE in the military is complex but service member donations represent a very small percentage of those given to the brain banks. Dr. Ann McKee believes that more donations for study means more knowledge that can help others with military experience.

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How Many Service Members Have Sustained a TBI?

Department of Defense: Military TBI Numbers 2000-2017

The latest traumatic brain injury data in the U.S. military.

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Dr. Ann McKee: Blast Injury and CTE

Dr. Ann McKee says that "blast injury is not a 'pure' injury" because it generally involves a further impact injury, such as hitting your head on the wall of a Humvee.

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Dr. Ann McKee: CTE and the Military

Dr. Ann McKee explains why studying the effects of repetitive head trauma in the military is more complicated than studying athletes.

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TEPT: 7 preguntas que debe hacer antes de la terapia

La siguiente información puede ayudarle a elegir un terapeuta que sea adecuado para usted.

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Medicamentos para el TEPT

Aprenda cuáles son los cuatro medicamentos más efectivos para tratar el TEPT.

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Medications for PTSD

Medications that have been shown to be helpful in treating PTSD symptoms are some of the same medications also used for symptoms of depression and anxiety.

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Desensibilización y reprocesamiento por movimientos oculares (DRMO) para el TEPT

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for PTSD

La DRMO le ayuda a procesar y dar sentido a su trauma mientras que presta atención a un movimiento oscilatorio o sonido (como un dedo moviendo lado a lado, una luz, o un tono).

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Terapia de procesamiento cognitivo para el TEPT

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD

La TPC le enseña a modificar los pensamientos y sentimientos dolorosos que tenía desde su trauma.

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Exposure to mild blast forces cause brain pathology and deficits

Researchers show how even mild exposure to a single blast shock wave is able to induce small but potentially very meaningful pathogenic effects that accumulate with time.

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Help Your Veteran Get Needed Care

You may notice that things are not right for your loved one who served in combat, Do you know what to say?

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Conceptos básicos de tratamiento del TEPT

Leer una descripción sobre los tratamientos que han demostrado ser más eficaces para el TEPT. Esos tratamientos incluyen terapia de conversación y medicamentos.

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The Dangerous Trap of the Comparison Game

Sometimes, you might not be playing the comparison game as a team sport; it might be a solo venture. You might look at yourself now, and compare yourself to yourself twenty years ago.

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Heavy Weapons Training, Blast Exposure and the Brain

Navy SEALs are working together with Neurotactical Research Team to better understand brain health while experiencing regular blast exposure, either through training or combat.

Army Scientists Use Fluorescent Gels to Study Blast Pressure on the Brain

Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are studying the physiological effects of blast pressure on the brain in order to discover technology solutions to protect Soldiers.

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Terapia de exposición prolongada para el TEPT

La EP le enseña a acercarse gradualmente a los recuerdos relacionados con su trauma, los sentimientos y las situaciones que ha estado evitando desde su trauma.

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Ayude a su veterano obtener la atención necesaria

Describe cómo obtener ayuda para su Veterano si tienen dificultades para adaptarse a la vida posterior al despliegue.

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Managing Post-Traumatic Headaches After Brain Injury

A jolt to your head also causes a jolt to your neck, headaches with neck pain are the most common types of pain after a TBI. About 50% of people with a TBI suffer from headaches.

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Managing Pain After Brain Injury

Managing Pain After Traumatic Brain Injury

No two brain injuries are the same. However, pain is one symptom that many people with TBI have. Here's how to manage post-traumatic pain.

Equine Therapy Being Used to Help Wounded Warriors with TBI & PTSD

Photo of two people brushing and petting a brown horse who is facing the camera wearing a bridle

In equine therapy, the behavioral health specialist and the equine handler aren't the therapists the horses are.

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Using Biomarkers to Discover Pathways to Healing for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury

Approaches that bridge the basic neuroscience of neural-cognitive functioning with the practical realities of clinical rehabilitation are valuable for intervention development, potentially opening the way for therapies that target biological systems and synergistically augment the specific effects of training.

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What is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE?

Dr. Daniel Perl describes chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

Daniel P. Perl, MD

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Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

Concussion / Mild TBI

Living with Traumatic Brain Injury

Military & Veterans

Seniors & Brain Injury

What Have We Learned About Blast Injury Since the Days of “Shell Shock”?

Blast Injury: What We Have Learned Since the Days of "Shell Shock"

Dr. Perl describes how what we know about blast injury has changed since the early days of 'shell shock' in World War I and in subsquent conflicts.

Daniel P. Perl, MD

Topic:

Concussion / Mild TBI

Military & Veterans

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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How Many Service Members Have Had a Blast Injury?

Dr. Perl talks about some of the challenges in identifying exact numbers of blast injury in the military, but estimates that it's in the hundreds of thousands. He also talks about questions related to women who may suffer from blast injury in the future and civilians impacted by blast injuries as well.

Daniel P. Perl, MD

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Military & Veterans

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