The Effects of Chronic Heavy Drinking on Brain Function Are Underdiagnosed
Click here to read the full story published by the Wall Street Journal, covering some of TRACTS Center's alcohol research.
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Brains of veterans near bomb blasts appear to age faster.
U.S. veterans who were nearby to bomb blasts in Iraq and Afghanistan appear to experience faster brain aging, according to a new study. The study, which is the first to examine the longer-term brain health of veteransexposed to bomb blasts, was published this week in Brain: A Journal of Neurology....
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Substance abuse up among active duty personnel
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/09/20/daily-circuit-military-drugs-bin...
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. Using...
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational counseling remains an integral part of our TRACTS Center of Excellence. As always, our aim is to help ease the transition of service members from the military to the civilian workforce. We hope to provide practical assistance to service members in the following areas: Writing an effective...
BRAVE
The BRAVE trial is a Department of Defense sponsored, multi-site clinical trial targeting improvement of cognitive deficits associated with mild traumatic brain injury. In particular, it tests whether multiple sessions of at-home computer-based cognitive training can generalize to improvements in...
Frontal White Matter
Alcohol use and neuroimaging data were obtained as part of a comprehensive assessment of post-deployment health at the VA Boston TBI Center of Excellence (TRACTS). Veterans of OEF/OIF/OND present to the VA with complex and interactive psychological and physical problems, including high rates of...
Victoria Nicole Poole, Ph.D.
Victoria is a postdoctoral fellow in the BIDMC/Harvard "Translational Research in Aging" T32 program and is mentored by Drs. Bill Milberg and Michael Esterman. She received her BS in Chemistry from Oakwood University (2009) and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University (2014). Her...