Brain Injury Awareness Month Observed

The National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Walter Reed Bethesda kicked off Brain Injury Awareness Month with a resource fair March 1 in the America Building at the medical center. In addition to NICoE, the fair included other agencies and organizations focused on traumatic brain injury care and research, including the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center and the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine.

NICoE, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, define TBI as a disruption in the normal function of the brain that can be caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head, or penetrating head injury. Everyone is at risk for a TBI....

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