The Long-term Effects of Repeated Blast Exposure on United States Special Operations Forces (ReBlast) study aims to identify biomarkers of brain injury associated with repeated, low-level blast exposure in Special Operations Forces personnel.  The ReBlast study protocol is published at Journal of Neurotrauma and posted online at ClinicalTrials.gov.

Edlow BL*, Bodien YG*, Baxter T, Belanger HG, Cali RJ, Deary KB, Fischl B, Foulkes AS, Gilmore N, Greve DN, Hooker JM, Huang SY, Kelemen JN, Kimberly WT, Maffei C, Masood M, Perl DP, Polimeni JR, Rosen BR, Tromly SL, Tseng CJ, Yao EF, Zürcher NR, Mac Donald CL**, Dams-O’Connor K**. Long-term effects of repeated blast exposure in United States Special Operations Forces personnel: A pilot study protocol. Journal of Neurotrauma. 2022;39:1391-1407. (*co-first, **co-last) PMCID PMC9529318. [PubMed]

Edlow BL, Gilmore NM, Tromly SL, Deary KB, McKinney IR, Hu CG, Kelemen JN, Maffei C, Tseng CJ, Ramos Llorden G, Healy BC, Masood M, Cali RJ, Baxter T, Yao EF, Belanger HG, Benjamini D, Basser PJ, Priemer DS, Kimberly WT, Polimeni JR, Rosen BR, Fischl B, Zürcher NR, Greve DN, Hooker JM, Huang SY, Caruso A, Smith GA, Szymanski TG, Perl DP, Dams-O’Connor K, Mac Donald CL, Bodien YG. Optimizing Brain Health of United States Special Operations Forces. Journal of Special Operations Medicine. 2023;23:47-56. [PubMed] [JSOM Podcast]