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What Are the Effects of Blast Injuries?

Dr. Perl describes the range of symptoms that follow a blast injury.

Daniel P. Perl, MD

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Concussion / Mild TBI

Military & Veterans

Symptoms

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What Do Blast Injuries Feel Like?

Dr. Daniel Perl talks about the sensations service members describe who have experienced a blast injury.

Daniel P. Perl, MD

Topic:

Military & Veterans

Physical Symptoms of Brain Injury

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What Do Blast Injuries Do to Your Brain?

Dr. Daniel Perl describes how blast injuries physically impact the brain.

Daniel P. Perl, MD

Topic:

Military & Veterans

Traumatic Brain Injury

The Superhero’s Other Half: Helping Your Service Member Understand Your Alter Ego

When a service member is deployed the spouse is everything: head chef, accountant, mechanic, troubleshooter, problem solver, mother, father, good cop, and bad cop. Their job is moving from a dual parent role to a single parent role and back again, constantly. The challenge is that this takes some getting used to for both the spouse and the service member.

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Superhero in the House: Living with Your Service Member’s Alter Ego

Ever wonder what it was like for Superman at home? He has chores and responsibilities, just like every other spouse in a mutually supportive relationship. But how does he leave the cape at the door? And how does Lois get used to him wearing the cape around the house?

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The Link Between TBI Severity, Loss of Consciousness, and Dementia in Veterans

In this cohort study of more than 350 000 veterans, even mild TBI without LOC was associated with more than a 2-fold increase in the risk of dementia diagnosis.

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Where to Get Help for PTSD

Information to help you find local mental health services and information on trauma and PTSD.

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Blast Injury: The Invisible Wound

The story of Gunnery Sgt. Evan Ahlin, a blast-induced TBI survivor who continues to serve, more than seven years after his initial injury.

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DSM-5 Criteria for PTSD

Learn exactly what post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is and what can trigger it.

12 Free Military Apps for Managing Life with Brain Injury

Free Military Traumatic Brain Injury Apps

Military smartphone apps for service members and veterans, their families, and professionals.

Have You Seen These Apps for PTSD?

Apps to help with PTSD.

The Mechanisms Blast Brain Injury: What We Know and Don't Know

Mild blast traumatic brain injury (bTBI) accounts for the majority of brain injury service members and veterans but the mechanisms of primary blast brain injury continue to be disputed. Addressed in this review are blast wave transmission through the skull, direct cranial transmission, skull flexure dynamics, thoracic surge, acceleration, and cavitation.

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8 Things a Mental Health Professional Wants a Veteran to Know

The list was written from my own experience as a combat veteran, and from what I’ve learned from veterans in my own work; this post is looking at things from the other side, based on my experiences as a mental health counselor.

What Blast Injuries Do to Your Brain

Dr. Perl describes the unique impact of a blast injury on the brain.

What Blast Injury Feels Like

Dr. Perl shares what service members have described when recalling what their injuries felt like.

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The Effect of Blast Injuries

Dr. Perl describes the range of symptoms that follow a blast injury.

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Blast Injury: What We've Learned from Autopsies

Dr. Perl discusses some of the physiology of a blast injury and subsequent scarring.

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.

Blast Injury and Mental Health

Dr. Perl discusses the importance of looking at physical and mental impacts of blast injury together.

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 subsequent conflicts.

Meeting with Families of Servicemen Who Have Died

Dr. Perl describes the important and emotional meetings he has with the families of service members whose brains he has studied.

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Looking Ahead to Future Blast Injury Research

Dr. Perl shares his optimism for better research and new findings in the future.

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Examining Brains

Dr. Perl discusses the importance of brain donation and the repository he has helped to set up in order to provide more specimens for research.

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for PTSD

EMDR helps process and make sense of trauma. It involves calling the trauma to mind while paying attention to a back-and-forth movement or sound (like a finger waving side to side, a light, or a tone).

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PTSD Fact Sheet: Frequently Asked Questions

Learn more about this complex and sometimes debilitating mental state.