The number of soldiers being deployed in combat settings is steadily increasing with peace-keeping or combat-related missions occurring multiple times in an individual's military career. Combat increases military personnel's likelihood of experiencing physical and/or psychologic…
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Blast-induced neurotrauma (BINT) is a newly emerging re-occurrence of an old combat-related injury in U.S. military troops returning from deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq. BINT is leading to a silent epidemic of symptomatic troops who face barriers to accessing healthcare and …
The overarching goal of this dissertation was to understand the extent of opioid use among persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and inform health policy related to these medications. Both the population of persons with TBI and the integrated structure of care in the Veteran…
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the military continue to be widely researched and discussed. TBI incidence has been on the rise in the military population and directly coincides with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is estimated that 57 million individuals worldwide…
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the military continue to be widely researched and discussed. TBI incidence has been on the rise in the military population and directly coincides with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is estimated that 57 million individuals worldwide…
There is an increasing demand for family members to become caregivers because of rising costs in medical care, and this shift in medical care necessitates focused attention on this new population of informal caregivers. Most of the literature has focused on caregivers of patient…
The purpose of the current study was to determine the clinical utility of the Ohio State University Traumatic Brain Injury Identification Method (OSU-TBI-ID) in a criminal justice sample, by evaluating the criterion-related validity of this instrument. It was hypothesized that t…
Background. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has evolved into the signature injury for service members returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Current standards for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of service members with mild TBI (mTBI) are often incomplete, leadin…
A growing literature suggests that disturbances of emotional regulation and interpersonal difficulties are quite common in children with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Although estimates suggest that rates of TBI are highest for individuals between the ages of 15 and 24, very lit…
Blast induced neurotrauma (BINT) has been designated as the "signature injury" to warfighters in the recent military conflicts. In the past decade, conflicts in Iraq (operation Iraqi freedom) and Afghanistan (operation enduring freedom) as well as the increasing burden of the te…
Mild to moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with increased risk of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in returning veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Evidence from neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies suggests that PTSD and TBI may share a commo…
An estimated 19.5% of all U.S. troops deployed to Iraq/Afghanistan have symptoms related to blast-induced Traumatic Brain Injury (bTBI). Up to now causal mechanisms of bTBI are unknown. Previously an anatomically detailed human head finite element model (WSUHIM) was successfully…
Several efforts have been made in the past half century to characterize the behavior of brain tissue under different modes of loading and deformation rates; however each developed model has been associated with limitations. This dissertation aims at addressing the non-linear and…
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the military continue to be widely researched and discussed. TBI incidence has been on the rise in the military population and directly coincides with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is estimated that 57 million individuals worldwide…
Background: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) has been a common injury for military casualties in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. A key management principle in the acute phase of a TBI is to prevent further injury. There are several potentially correctable physiologic measures…
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the military continue to be widely researched and discussed. TBI incidence has been on the rise in the military population and directly coincides with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is estimated that 57 million individuals worldwide…
Public awareness of the incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) increased significantly throughout the past decade. The increased awareness is primarily the result of a heightened understanding of the impact of blast-related TBI in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a renewe…
High rates of both binge drinking and traumatic brain injury (TBI) are common among military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Given the normative behavior of binge drinking in the military, alcohol may be used to cope with the stresses of combat experiences and inj…
This retrospective cohort study was designed to identify which variables are most associated with therapy intensity and functional clinical outcomes in war wounded traumatic brain injured soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. There has been a significant increase in the number of …