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Resources for Veterans: Back to School

Resources for veterans going to college — from getting started to money matters.

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Helping Veterans Succeed in College

Helping someone with a brain injury navigate life on a college campus after being in the military can be a tall order. Army veteran Timm Lovitt is the man for the job.

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Team River Runner

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.

Superman: Suzanne Laboy's Blog

In February 2013, police officer Peter Laboy was shot in the head. His wife, Suzanne, is chronicling the family's journey.

Banishing Caregiver's Remorse

Do you feel like no matter how much time you spend caregiving, you are not doing enough? Rosemary has felt that way, too, but realized she needed to do something about it.

The Future of Diagnosing Traumatic Brain Injury

No one can definitively predict the future, but neuroscientist Dr. Ronald Hayes offers his thoughts on how developing research will help diagnosing and treating brain injury more effectively.

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What Exactly Is a Biomarker?

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.

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More Science and Insight into Biomarkers for TBI

The more developed biomarkers become through research, the more clinicians will understand the biochemical changes in the brain from injury and how to treat the effects.

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What the Future Might Hold for Treating Brain Injury

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.

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Extending Use of Biomarkers to Pediatric Population with TBI

Researchers and clinicians hope to make using biomarkers to diagnose TBI in infants or even in pre-natal cord blood a reality.

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Biomarkers for TBI: Still Moving from Bench to Bedside

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.

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The Need for an Objective TBI Test

Neuroscientist Dr. Ronald Hayes talks about how a blood biomarker would be a powerful adjunct to imaging and in-person evaluations when testing someone for a brain injury.

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The Post-9/11 GI Bill at a Glance

The post-9/11 GI Bill in a nutshell — who qualifies and what the benefits are.

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Hiring Veterans with TBI and PTSD: Dos and Don'ts for Employers

Hiring Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Dos and Don'ts for Employers and Hiring Managers

Don't assume that a person with TBI or PTSD can't do a job due to apparent and non-apparent disabilities. Learn other dos and don'ts

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Common Employer Questions About Returning Service Members with TBI and/or PTSD

The more employers know about TBI and PTSD, the more they can help their veteran employees succeed in the workplace.

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What Does It Mean to Survive?

"Life and living is the very definition of surviving. It is what the living do. Definitions are meant to change. Able to change. For the brain injured, begging to change. What does it mean to you to have survived?"

The Stress Continuum

The Stress Continuum is a model that identifies how Sailors and Marines react under stressful situations and what to do to help.

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Resilience: The Bounce Back Factor

Think of emotional resilience as armor for the mind, push-ups for the brain.

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Resilience: What Is It?

Resilience can best be understood as a type of response to intense stress. By definition, resilience means "bouncing" or "returning to form."

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Family Tips for Homecoming

The happy anticipation of a service member returning from combat deployment often is mixed with a dose of anxiety. Families might be ecstatic, nervous, scared, or confused, or all of the above at once.

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Gifts

"Think for a moment about the best gift you have ever received. What made it so different from all the rest?" Rosemary shares one birthday present she will treasure forever.

Vocational Issues Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Part II

Although some of the challenges related to returning to work can be hard to change, many people can successfully return to work after a brain injury.

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Succession Planning

Rosemary talks about how planning for life’s unexpected emergencies is never easy or comfortable, but in the long run, it can save a lot of heartache.

Are the Brain's Axonal Corners Particularly Vulnerable to Breakage?

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.

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Understanding the Brain's Connectivity on Cellular and Mechanistic Levels

In 1993, some researchers decried: "It is intolerable that we do not have a knowledge of the connectivity of the human brain." Do we know more now?

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