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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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Life After Brain Injury: My Struggles and Strategies for Memory Issues

Jason Cowper and Tonya Howell share their stories of coming to terms with changes in their memory, and strategies they use to compensate for these changes.

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Life After Brain Injury: My Struggle with Depression

Brandon Blake and Michelle Kauffman share how they worked to address challenges they faced with depression after experiencing a brain injury.

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Hits, Not Concussions, Cause CTE

Researchers have identified evidence of early CTE brain pathology after head impact, even in the absence of signs of concussion.

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Animated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Learn more about the signs and symptoms of mild TBI, the causes, and treatments.

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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What is CTE?

Dr. Perl describes chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

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How Common is CTE?

Dr. Perl discusses reports of the prevalence of CTE in professional athletes.

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Why Autopsies Matter

Dr. Perl explains why autopsies are so important in providing data for brain research.

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Long-Term Effects of Brain Injury

Understanding the long-term impact of a single traumatic brain injury as well as cumulative and CTE.

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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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Why We Need People to Donate Their Brains

Dr. Perl describes the differences between scanned images of a live brain as opposed to the specimen that can be analyzed under a powerful microscope.

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How We Study the Brain

Dr. Perl describes the process by which a brain specimen is studied in the lab.

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How I Came to the Military

Dr. Daniel Perl describes how he was recruited from his work at Mount Sinai to work on traumatic brain injury in the military.

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What Happens When You Have a Concussion?

In this TED-Ed original, Clifford Robbins explains the science behind concussions.

Concussion Recovery and 'Return to Learn' for Parents & Kids

Dr.Mike Evans discusses what steps must be followed during the recovery period following a concussion.

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Sleep Issues and Post-Concussive Headaches

Nurse practitioner Helen Coronel explains why sleep problems should usually be addressed before treating the headaches.

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