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"The best time to get treatment for PTSD is now," says Lt. Col. Philip Holcombe, PhD. Now can mean soon after the trauma or now can mean 10 years later when symptoms have a delayed onset.

Lt. Col. Philip Holcombe, PhD talks about how injury to different parts of the brain like the amygdala or the frontal lobe can affect behavior and how best to approach treatment.

Adaptive sports like kayaking are great therapy for the injured brain ... and injured spirit. Hear from a few veterans who found hope, friendship, and renewed confidence from being out on the water.

A biomarker is any measurement that provides information on a patient's specific organ or organ system. A blood biomarker test like that used to test heart attack is greatly needed for TBI.

Neuroscientist Dr. Ronald Hayes talks about how, in the future, doctors will be able to map a person's genome, which could help how treatments are developed for brain injury.

Getting an effective blood biomarker test for TBI from bench to bedside with FDA-approval along the way is no small feat. Dr. Ronald Hayes talks about two proteins for which researchers have high hopes.

Like the leg of a table breaking off where the leg meets the table top, cerebral fibers in the brain have sharp branches and turns, which might make them particularly vulnerable to inertial trauma.

Dr. Van Wedeen talks about how the brain's cortical areas are arranged like a checkerboard, hierarchic from front to back.

Dr. Van Wedeen explains that evolution of the brain must occur with small changes — from a small change in the genome to a small change in the structure to a small change, ultimately, in function.

Neuroscientist Van Wedeen talks about how in diffusion spectral imaging water is used as a tracer to figure out the directions and crossings that fibers in the brain take.

Neuroscientist Van Wedeen talks about how the brain is more than a random network of connections in and within the various areas of the brain.

"You want your son back so bad and you want him to have a normal life. It's not going to happen ... all you can do is be there 100 percent."