Lessons from the Vietnam Head Injury Study
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National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, United States
The Vietnam Head Injury Study is a prospective long-term study of several hundred military veterans who suffered mostly penetrating Traumatic Brain Injuries (pTBI) in combat in Vietnam. In this presentation, I will review the importance of such studies for improving our understanding of brain-behaviour relationships, recovery of function after brain injury, and neuroplasticity. I will first describe our early results focusing on the influence of pre-injury ability on outcome, the importance of social skills in predicting outcome, and briefly touch upon the unique effects of pTBI compared to closed head injuries on behaviour. The last part of the presentation will emphasize our more recent results examining the effects of focal brain injury on the occurrence of post-traumatic stress disorder, the effects of genetic predisposition on outcome, and how many of the results we have obtained helped generate a model of prefrontal cortex functions.
Keywords:
frontal lobes,
neuroplasticity,
Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury,
Recovery of Function
Conference:
Karolinska Institutet 200 years anniversary
Symposium on Traumatic Injuries in the Nervous System, Stockholm, Sweden, 15 Sep - 16 Sep, 2010.
Presentation Type:
Presentation
Topic:
Traumatic Injuries in the Nervous System
Citation:
Grafman
J
(2010). Lessons from the Vietnam Head Injury Study.
Front. Neurol.
Conference Abstract:
Karolinska Institutet 200 years anniversary
Symposium on Traumatic Injuries in the Nervous System.
doi: 10.3389/conf.fneur.2010.56.00017
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Received:
03 Sep 2010;
Published Online:
21 Sep 2010.
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Correspondence:
Dr. Jordan Grafman, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, Bethesda, Maryland, United States, jgrafman@northwestern.edu