Pentagon records show that since 2000, more than 300,000 servicemembers have suffered brain injuries — the vast majority of them mild and many from exposure to a blast. Those are only the cases ...

Researchers say troops’ brains may be injured by blasts from firing M1 Abrams tank guns and other weapons, even if they measure below the Pentagon’s ceiling for safe exposure.

Experts say the gunman’s brain tissue points to traumatic injury ‘likely’ caused by blasts in the line of duty; the Army disagrees, but is taking steps to limit exposure.

ABSTRACT. Differences in post-injury auditory system pathophysiology after mild blast and non-blast acute acoustic trauma. Nicholas Race 1,2*, Jesyin Lai 3*, Riyi Shi 1,3,4†, and Edward Bartlett 1,3†† ...

The blast from firing a 120-millimeter mortar officially measures at 2.5 PSI. But the guidelines do not take account of whether a soldier is exposed to a single blast or to a thousand.

More veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are surviving with traumatic brain injury. In Boston, the Department of Veterans Affairs is studying the long-term effects of those injuries on 800 veterans.