Military and Veterans

American Veterans with Brain Injuries (AVBI) is a grassroots undertaking. They provide resources, commentary, links to personal pages of American military veterans who have sustained tbi's, and live (Internet) peer support for American veterans with brain injuries and their families.

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American Veterans with Brain Injuries (AVBI) is a grassroots undertaking. They provide live (Internet) peer support for American veterans with brain injuries and their families.

Listed under: military and veterans

"BrainLine is a national multimedia project offering information and resources about preventing, treating, and living with TBI....
BrainLine serves anyone whose life has been affected by TBI. That includes people with brain injury, their families, professionals in the field, and anyone else in a position to help prevent or ameliorate the toll of TBI."
"BrainLine is funded by the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the Primary Operational TBI Component of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, through a subcontract award with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine."
Address:
BrainLine.org
WETA
2775 South Quincy Street
Arlington, VA 22206
Phone: 703.998.2020
E-mail: info@BrainLine.org

The Traumatic Brain Injury and Other Health Programs Enhancement Act (S ... the effectiveness of providing assisted living services to veterans with TBI to ...

To serve active duty military, their dependents and veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) through medical care, clinical research and educational ...
Researchers and clinical care professionals at the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) are working to understand the effects of traumatic brain ...
1-800-870-9244

Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) (This entity is under the U. S. Department of Defense.) The mission of the DCoE:
"DCoE assesses, validates, oversees and facilitates prevention, resilience, identification, treatment, outreach, rehabilitation, and reintegration programs for psychological health (PH) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) to ensure the Department of Defense meets the needs of the nation's military communities, warriors and families. "

Contact DCoE
1401 Wilson Blvd,
Suite 400
Rosslyn, VA 22209
877-291-3263

Resources@DCoEOutreach.Org
1335 East West Highway
9th Floor, Suite 640
Silver Spring, MD 20190
301-295-3257

Defense Centers of Excellence
703-696-9460

Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) Component Centers:

DVBIC - Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
CDP - Center For Deployment Psychology
DHCC - Deployment Health Clinical Center
CSTS - Center For The Study Of Traumatic Stress
NICoE - National Intrepid Center of Excellence
T2 - National Center for Telehealth and Technology

Department of Defense Definition of TBI as of Oct. 1, 2007

Our Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center provides both inpatient and outpatient ... VA Palo Alto also has one of VA's four traumatic brain injury units in the ...

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Military audiologists are dedicated to the prevention of noise-induced hearing loss.
Among other things the MAA wishes to advance the profession of audiology within the US Department of Defense by protecting and maintaining the hearing sensitivity of those exposed to hazardous levels of noise.

The Military Audiology organization presents lists of Military and government, noise and audiology links. This organization also lists sponsors. Some of the sponosrs are companies that provide hearing-related treatments, technology and devices.

Military.com