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Dr. Paul Aravich talks about PTSD and other serious mental disorders as types of brain injuries, which can come with an increased risk for dementia later in life.

Whether with a TBI or not, people need to know their numbers and get the proper tests they need — blood pressure, cholesterol, mammography, etc.

Dr. Paul Aravich suggests that veterans with TBI should not look at their loss of capacities but rather their different capacities.

Dr. Paul Aravich talks about how soldiers, veterans, and civilians can prevent and get treatment for the behavioral complications from TBI that can worsen with age.

So why are issues of aging, longevity, and the ability to be vulnerable to or resist the diseases of age with a disability like TBI so understudied?

Learning to trust the world, to trust caregivers, can be equally if not more effective than drugs for people with executive function or behavioral problems post-TBI.

Dr. Jordan Grafman talks about the Vietnam vets in a longevity study who were able to create stable, good lives for themselves and their families without much systemized rehab like there is today.

Dr. Jordan Grafman talks about the Vietnam Head Injury Study, started in 1981, that continues to look at the effects of brain injury on current and late-life function.

Researchers studying Vietnam veterans with TBI are now looking more closely at how TBI can alter a person's social beliefs — from religious and political to legal and moral.

Thanks to the input of the caregivers of Vietnam vets enrolled in a longevity study, researchers have been better able to examine the toll of TBI on a person's social behavior.

Dr. Jordan Grafman talks about how people who had a higher level of skills, interests, and motivation before a brain injury tend to have a better outcome than those who did not.

Researchers are testing methamphatemine to study its effect on mobility and cognitive function after a moderate to severe brain injury.