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Men and women who serve their country come home every day only to suffer from mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. And now there is increasing evidence that there are even more-negative consequences to their time in the military: early signs of conditions that are...

A survey of several hundred veterans with mild brain injury, most coming in combat and from exposure to blast, shows that 60% reported suffering a neurological condition that involves exaggerated emotional responses such as crying or laughing. Read more here.

As the result of your effort and commitment to helping your fellow Veterans and us achieve our mission to help you, the VA has decided to open a satellite TRACTS site in Houston Texas. This is fantastic news for a couple of reasons. It has always been our vision that TRACTS would develop into a...

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Many among the newest war Veterans, like those before them, are struggling with a web of invisible wounds—beyond the physical scars of combat. Now, a VA research team in Boston has identified a particular combination of mental and behavioral conditions that appears to confer an extra-high risk of...

Veterans helping veterans to develop better care in treating PTSD.

See below for a TRACTS/GNL/BALLAB list of Presentations. Formal schedules and abstracts are available at the INS Website. SYMPOSIA Gloucester Hall (Boston Marriott Copley Place). Symposium Title: Symposium 8. Deployment Trauma: Insights from the TRACTS Cohort on the Clinical, Cognitive, and...

Before the anger and the divorce, before four tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, before the explosions and the pain, Staff Sgt. Daedan Jackson had been just a kid planning to go to school. t just sort of happened,” said Jackson, now 34, on joining the Army. His girlfriend at the time was in ROTC, and...

Changes in SKA2 gene associated with brain cell loss, more severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Read more

TRACTS: VA Research explores mental health issues of PTSD and TBI