In this episode of CUBIST, Dr. Keith Stuessi and Dr. Kati Monti discuss a study entitled “High Lifetime Blast Exposure Using the Blast Exposure Threshold Survey is Associated with Worse Warfighter Brain Health Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury” by Dr. Rael Lange and colleagues and published in the Journal of Neurotrauma in October 2023. In addition, we've invited Dr. Lange, a clinical researcher at TBICoE and the lead author of the paper, to comment on their findings.

Article Citation: Lange, R. T., French, L. M., Lippa, S. M., Gillow, K., Tippett, C. E., Barnhart, E. A., Glazer, M. E., Bailie, J. M., Hungerford, L., & Brickell, T. A. (2023). High Lifetime Blast Exposure Using the Blast Exposure Threshold Survey Is Associated With Worse Warfighter Brain Health Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Journal of neurotrauma, 10.1089/neu.2023.0133.

Article LINK: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37650835/

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