About this Research Topic
This is the second volume of the Research Topic titled 'Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders Affecting Military Personnel and Veterans'. You may find the first volume linked here.
Active military personnel and Veterans of the military face unique neurologic and neuropsychiatric challenges unique to this population compared to the public. The military and Veteran population have faced traumatic experiences that lead to both physical and mental consequences. Amongst the important challenges unique to this population include traumatic brain injury, increased risk of neurological disorders such as dementia and stroke, and comorbid neuropsychiatric conditions. Unfortunately, many of these challenges also have a negative feedback loop such as brain injuries leading to post-traumatic stress order, which can increase risk of Alzheimer’s Dementia. Unfortunately, there are many gaps in knowledge to understand the unique challenges this population faces.
There are many opportunities to improve our understanding of these challenges that military personnel and Veterans face. The goal of this Research Topic is to shine a light and improve understanding of these challenges. We aim to collect knowledge from the global network of researchers working on topics related to “Neurological and Neuropsychiatric disorders affecting military personnel and Veterans.” There are currently many gaps in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of conditions that affect this population disproportionately. This collection of work in the Frontiers in Neurology will give authors the opportunity to share with the global scientific community important research findings that address these gaps.
For this collection, we are looking for submissions with topics that specifically address the unique challenges affecting military personnel and Veterans with Neurologic and Neuropsychiatric disorders. While many topics overlap with the public, the submissions should address why the topic of their manuscript is a concern for military personnel and Veterans. For instance, while stroke is a common neurologic condition in the public, the manuscript could address why certain Veteran populations have higher risk of stroke. The scope of manuscript can be wide ranging from basic to translational to clinical science.
We welcome any types of manuscripts accepted by the journal including: Brief Research Report, Classification, Clinical Trial, Data Report, General Commentary, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Policy and Practice Reviews, Review, Study Protocol, Systematic Review, Technology and Code.
Dr. Lin currently holds grant support for research purposes from the Department of Veteran Affairs. The remainder of the Topic Editors have no potential conflicts of interest to declare.
Active military personnel and Veterans of the military face unique neurologic and neuropsychiatric challenges unique to this population compared to the public. The military and Veteran population have faced traumatic experiences that lead to both physical and mental consequences. Amongst the important challenges unique to this population include traumatic brain injury, increased risk of neurological disorders such as dementia and stroke, and comorbid neuropsychiatric conditions. Unfortunately, many of these challenges also have a negative feedback loop such as brain injuries leading to post-traumatic stress order, which can increase risk of Alzheimer’s Dementia. Unfortunately, there are many gaps in knowledge to understand the unique challenges this population faces.
There are many opportunities to improve our understanding of these challenges that military personnel and Veterans face. The goal of this Research Topic is to shine a light and improve understanding of these challenges. We aim to collect knowledge from the global network of researchers working on topics related to “Neurological and Neuropsychiatric disorders affecting military personnel and Veterans.” There are currently many gaps in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of conditions that affect this population disproportionately. This collection of work in the Frontiers in Neurology will give authors the opportunity to share with the global scientific community important research findings that address these gaps.
For this collection, we are looking for submissions with topics that specifically address the unique challenges affecting military personnel and Veterans with Neurologic and Neuropsychiatric disorders. While many topics overlap with the public, the submissions should address why the topic of their manuscript is a concern for military personnel and Veterans. For instance, while stroke is a common neurologic condition in the public, the manuscript could address why certain Veteran populations have higher risk of stroke. The scope of manuscript can be wide ranging from basic to translational to clinical science.
We welcome any types of manuscripts accepted by the journal including: Brief Research Report, Classification, Clinical Trial, Data Report, General Commentary, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Policy and Practice Reviews, Review, Study Protocol, Systematic Review, Technology and Code.
Dr. Lin currently holds grant support for research purposes from the Department of Veteran Affairs. The remainder of the Topic Editors have no potential conflicts of interest to declare.
Keywords: Military Personnel, Veterans, Traumatic Brain Injury, Neurology, Psychiatry, War exposure, Combat disorders, Military Medicine
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
