Intimate Personal Violence, PTSD, and TBI: A Combination Not to be Overlooked

Another cause of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder in the military

Virtually all of the attention given to traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the military has been focused on combat injuries and on its confounding relationship with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A far too frequent but often neglected cause of TBI is intimate partner violence (IPV) in female veterans, who have a 60% greater lifetime risk for IPV than non-veteran women. Both TBI and PTSD can be consequences of IPV, and almost 20% of women hospitalized in Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities have IPV-related TBI lifetime histories. These researchers examined the occurrence of IPV-related TBI and its association with IPV-related PTSD in 224 women who reported lifetime IPV and were enrolled in a larger study of female veterans' preferences reg…

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Jonathan Silver, MD

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RoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions

Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesNorth American Brain Injury Association (Board Member); National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (Chair of Data Monitoring Safety Board for study of donepezil on cognition after traumatic brain injury)

Jonathan Silver, MD

Disclosures

RoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions

Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Intimate Personal Violence, PTSD, and TBI: A Combination Not to be Overlooked

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