AUTHOR=Davenport Nicholas D. 

TITLE=The Chaos of Combat: An Overview of Challenges in Military Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Research

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry

VOLUME=7

YEAR=2016

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00085

DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00085

ISSN=1664-0640

ABSTRACT=<p>Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion, is among the most common injuries affecting Veterans of recent combat deployments. Military mTBI differs from civilian mTBI in fundamental ways that make assessment and diagnosis difficult, including a reliance on retrospective self-report and the potential influence of comorbid psychopathology. These unique features and their implications for research and clinical practice are summarized, and neuroimaging studies are discussed in the context of these complicating factors.</p>