Abstract
The study of those who have sustained traumatic brain injuries (TBI) during military conflicts has greatly facilitated research in the fields of neuropsychology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, neurology, and neuroimaging. The Vietnam Head Injury Study (VHIS) is a prospective, long-term follow-up study of a cohort of 1,221 Vietnam veterans with mostly penetrating brain injuries, which has stretched over more than 40 years. The scope of this study, both in terms of the types of injury and fields of examination, has been extremely broad. It has been instrumental in extending the field of TBI research and in exposing pressing medical and social issues that affect those who suffer such injuries. This review summarizes the history of conflict-related TBI research and the VHIS to date, as well as the vast range of important findings the VHIS has established.
Highlights
THE RECENT HISTORY OF COMBAT-RELATED TBI RESEARCH Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the principal cause of death and disability in those under 35 in the USA
Teuber was the first to report on the role of preinjury intelligence in cognition post-TBI (Weinstein and Teuber, 1957), and he introduced was that of double dissociation of function, which has since become essential to functional localization (Lackner, 2009)
PHASE 2 – 15 YEARS ON Phase 2 evaluated 520 head-injured subjects from the original registry who responded to mailings, as well as 85 uninjured Vietnam veteran control subjects, matched by age
Summary
THE RECENT HISTORY OF COMBAT-RELATED TBI RESEARCH Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the principal cause of death and disability in those under 35 in the USA. Other results indicated similar long-term functional outcome in right and left hemisphere-damaged subjects, despite more severe contralateral functional motor deficits following lesions of the left hemisphere.
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