Impact of repeated blast exposure on active-duty United States Special Operations Forces

N Gilmore, CEJ Tseng, C Maffei… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
United States (US) Special Operations Forces (SOF) are frequently exposed to explosive
blasts in training and combat, but the effects of repeated blast exposure (RBE) on SOF brain …

Additive effects of mild head trauma, blast exposure, and aging within white matter tracts: A novel Diffusion Tensor Imaging analysis approach

O Poliva, C Herrera, K Sugai, N Whittle… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Existing diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies of neurological injury following high-level
blast exposure (hlBE) in military personnel have produced widely variable results. This is …

Neuroinflammation at the Grey-White Matter Interface in Active-Duty United States Special Operations Forces

BL Edlow, CEJ Tseng, N Gilmore, IR McKinney… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Emerging evidence from autopsy studies indicates that interface astroglial scarring (IAS) at
the grey-white matter junction is a pathological signature of repeated blast brain injury in …