The Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence is looking for participants for a blast exposure study. A history of blast exposure is not required to participate.

This session will bring together operational, safety, medical, and scientific leaders in the field of blast overpressure to address its effects on service members, military operations, and long-term health.

The Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence Annual Report provides an overview of accomplishments and activities in calendar year 2025.

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.

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

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.

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.

This TBICoE fact sheet can be used to educate patients with concussion on how to manage dizziness related to their injury.

TBICoE developed this quick reference resource based on the latest coding guidance to facilitate consistent and accurate coding for TBI diagnoses and related symptoms and conditions.

This research review provides an in-depth summary of the available clinical research on the topic of co-morbid mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. Specifically, this review will address symptoms, anatomy, diagnosis, and treatment of mild TBI, PTSD, and the unique circumstances associated with the presentation of both.