RESEARCH ARTICLES
Associations of Military-Related TBI With New-Onset Mental Health Conditions and Suicide Risk
OBJECTIVE To identify differences in rates of new-onset mental health conditions (ie, anxiety, mood, posttraumatic stress, adjustment, alcohol use, and substance use disorders) among soldiers with and without a history of military-related TBI and to explore the direct and indirect (through new-onset mental health disorders) associations of TBI with suicide.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Can Induce Angiogenesis and Regeneration of Nerve Fibers in (TBI)
Background: Recent clinical studies in stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI) victims suffering chronic neurological injury present evidence that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can induce neuroplasticity.
Veterans Study Reports Reduction in Suicide Ideation after HBOT
A pilot case control study of veterans of the US armed forces with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) or persistent post-concussion syndrome (PPCS), with or without post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), has found significant improvements in persistent post-concussion syndrome and PTSD symptoms, neurological exam, memory, intelligence quotient, attention, cognition, depression, anxiety, quality of life, and brain blood flow following hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT).
Psychological Autopsy Study Death by Suicides Among US Special Operations Forces
Background: This white paper discusses the aggregate findings from 29 psychological autopsies of Special Operations members who died by suicide between January 1st, 2012 and December 31st, 2015.1 Mental illnesses are diagnosed according to criteria in the forms of symptoms, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors either observable to or reported by the individual to others. The Department of Defense reports show that nearly half of the SOF members examined in the study had a diagnosed mental illness.