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Study Shows Veterans May Be at Risk for Aging at Accelerated Rate

News: January 22, 2015

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...

Study: High rate of emotions in vets with mild brain injury

News: February 03, 2015

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.

TRACTS IS NOW A NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER!

News: February 04, 2015

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...

Concentrate! How to tame a wandering mind

News: February 14, 2015

Click here to read the BBC article featuring our research on attention.

Troubling trio—depression, PTSD, mild traumatic brain injury—linked to extra-high disability risk

News: March 06, 2015

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...

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News: November 12, 2015

Veterans helping veterans to develop better care in treating PTSD.

TRACTS/GNL/BALLAB Presentations at the International Neuropsychological Society 44th Annual Meeting, Boston Marriott Copley Place, February 3-6, 2016

News: December 03, 2015

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...

Unraveling the Mysteries of Traumatic Brain Injury

News: June 03, 2015

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...

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Deployment Trauma

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PTSD One project in TRACTS is looking at how experiences during childhood might influence how service members react to stress later in life. Studies have shown that people’s reactions to stress are in part due to how much stress and psychological trauma they were exposed to when they were children...