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Traumatic Brain Injury
The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) portfolio includes health services research projects related to the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of individuals who have sustained injuries due to an open or closed trauma to the brain from impact, blast, or acceleration/deceleration. Projects in this portfolio also include issues related to the operational definition of brain injury (mild, moderate, severe), screening instruments, evaluation of instruments that measure the presence of, recovery from, and the longitudinal outcome of TBI, and associated co-morbidities including sensory, psychiatric, and vestibular. Projects also may include those related to treatment, including models of service delivery, and interventions with family members or studies related to caregiving and community reintegration. Current projects in the portfolio include cognitive assessment of veterans after blast injury, caregiving to improve the outcome of TBI individuals, characteristics of the TBI clinical reminder screen, visual dysfunction in TBI, measurement and outcomes of post-severe brain injury, evaluation of a polytrauma brain injury rehabilitation program. Traumatic Brain Injury is a current ORD and HSR&D priority, as described in the ORD Program Announcement on Traumatic Brain Injury, a special HSR&D solicitation, and in the current HSR&D priorities announcement (under Post-Deployment Health).
For general information about the Traumatic Brain Injury, please contact:
Martha Bryan, EdD
Mental Health Program Manager
Health Services Research and Development (124S)
Email: martha.bryan@va.gov
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