Better Understanding Military Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
LifeNet Health LifeSciences collaborated with the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM), a joint research program of the Uniformed Services University and the National Institutes of Health, to support the Brain Tissue Repository (BTR) program.
CNRM established the BTR to help better understand military traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI is the most common wound of recent wars, affecting more than 260,000 servicemen and women, and a huge burden for many returning service members and their families. With this repository, scientists and physicians have
developed innovative approaches to better understand how to care for our military personnel following a head injury. New medical analyses and treatments to prevent and treat TBI are being established by comparing uninjured and injured brain tissue.
This Life Sciences collaboration relied on tissue donations from service members and their families to provide the gifts that resulted in crucial information and led to new approaches for TBI treatment and prevention for our military forces.