Traumatic brain injury and mental health remain at the forefront of military medicine, raising complex questions about recovery. This training highlights emerging research and technologies, explores the evolving relationship between TBI and mental health, and considers recovery strategies shaped by innovative diagnostic and treatment perspectives.

TBICoE is the Defense Department’s office of responsibility for tracking traumatic brain injury data in the U.S. military. Here you’ll find data on the number of active duty service members — anywhere U.S. forces are located — with a first-time TBI diagnosis from calendar year 2000 through the third quarter of calendar year 2025. The data is also ...

TBICoE is the Defense Department’s office of responsibility for tracking traumatic brain injury data in the U.S. military. Here you’ll find data on the number of active duty service members — anywhere U.S. forces are located — with a first-time TBI diagnosis during calendar year 2025. The data is also broken down by each branch of the armed services.

TBICoE is the Defense Department’s office of responsibility for tracking traumatic brain injury data in the U.S. military. Here you’ll find data on the number of active duty service members — anywhere U.S. forces are located — with a first-time TBI diagnosis during calendar year 2024. The data is also broken down by each branch of the armed services.

In 2007, the Secretary of Defense chose TBICoE — then known as the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center — to direct research into the long-term effects of TBI among those who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom. See an overview of what we learned from the research.

Researchers discovered important risk factors that may hinder TBI treatment and recovery. Learn more in this fact sheet.

The Military Acute Concussion Evaluation 2 is an acute assessment tool for all medically trained personnel who treat service members involved in a potentially concussive event. The MACE 2 incorporates current state-of-the-science traumatic brain injury information, including vestibular-ocular-motor screening. The MACE 2 is an updated version of the ...

This TBICoE fact sheet helps service members diagnosed with a concussion understand vision problems and treatment options.

This clinical recommendation provides medical staff with a single, comprehensive reference for the assessment and management of dizziness and visual disturbances following mild TBI. Dizziness and visual disturbances often present with overlapping symptoms and should prompt a provider to perform a visual and dizziness — or vestibular — assessment.