Long-Term Impact of Military-Relevant Brain Injury Consortium

01/21/2025

The LIMBIC-CENC team is excited to announce that the abstract "Long-Term Effect of Cumulative Low-Level Blast Exposure on Cognitive Function" has been selected for distinction as one of the Brain Injury SIG's Highlighted Abstracts for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society! Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Martindale, Dr. Jason Bailie, Dr. Shannon Miles, Dr. Nicholas Davenport, Dr. Ida Babakhanyan, Sidney Hinds, Dr. William Walker, and Dr. Jared Rowland on their achievement!

08/04/2024

Recently, Principal Investigator Dr. Terri Pogoda and Social Science Program Specialist Jonathan Yee, from our Boston LIMBIC-CENC Prospective Longitudinal Study site, attended the “Run to Home Base” charity event at Fenway Park. The event benefits the Red Sox/MGH Home Base Program, which funds their proprietary research and clinical care programs for post 9/11 veterans with PTSD, TBI, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and other issues associated with military service. Dr. Pogoda and Jonathan shared information about LIMBIC-CENC and VA research with many interested individuals and networked with veteran service organizations.

04/11/2024

After a Herculean effort on the part of the entire Prospective Longitudinal Team, LIMBIC CENC successfully reached its enrollment goal of 3,000 graduated to follow-up participants. The 11 VA and DOD enrollment sites, who have been diligently working to contribute to the project’s enrollment, surpassed the goal 6 months early despite being shut down for a year due to the COVID pandemic. While there were many who questioned whether or not this outstanding team could make their goal with all of the obstacles thrown in their way, the LIMBIC-CENC Leadership Team never doubted that they would not only be successful but that they would complete the mission ahead of time. Congratulations to all 11 sites on a job well done.

We’d like to extend a special shout out to the LIMBIC-CENC Prospective Longitudinal Study site, W. G. (Bill) Hefner VA Healthcare System, who tested the 3,000th participant!

Thank you to everyone who made this possible, your participation and dedication to the study is greatly appreciated.

10/13/2023

The VA Boston team provided information about the LIMBIC-CENC study to Veterans during tabling events in the VA Boston lobby and the Stand Down in Boston City Hall Plaza.

07/13/2023

Today, LIMBIC-CENC Research Coordinator Padraic Flynn and Military Coordinator Joe Montanari held a recruiting event at Central VA Healthcare System, in Richmond, VA. Padraic and Joe shared information about this important study with potential participants.

03/13/2023

Congratulations to both LIMBIC-CENC Principle Investigators David X. Cifu, M.D., and William C. Walker, M.D., and P*s from DVBIC-TBICoE for their recently published article in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, titled “Cross-walk comparison of the DVBIC-TBICoE and LIMBIC-CENC combat-related concussion prospective longitudinal study datasets”.

In this paper, they describe and compare cohorts between two large, longitudinal, federally-funded TBI studies of Service members and veterans across demographic, self-report, and neuropsychological variables.

Please click below to read more about the article.

To describe and compare cohorts between two large, longitudinal, federally-funded TBI studies of Service members and veterans across demographic, self-report, and neuropsychological variables.

03/09/2023

Congratulations to LIMBIC-CENC PI, David Cifu, M.D., for receiving the annual Stonnington Award for his article titled “Clinical research findings from the long-term impact of military-relevant brain injury consortium-Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium (LIMBIC-CENC) 2013-2021”.
The Brain Injury, the official scientific publication of IBIA, was founded by Professor Henry Herbert Stonnington, MBBS, FRCP, FAAPM&R, FACRM, FAFRM in 1983 and has evolved into one of the leading international neuroscience publications.
Join us in congratulating Dr. Cifu for being recognized for his contributions to the brain injury field.

03/03/2023

During February 2023, LIMBIC-CENC reached a milestone of 2,500 participants that graduated to follow-up. Thank you to everyone who made this possible, your participation and dedication to the study is greatly appreciated.

11/11/2022

Happy Veteran's Day! We are eternally grateful to the nation's Veterans for their service, and we are proud to honor them today and every day.

09/14/2022

Congratulations to our 11 LIMBIC-CENC Prospective Longitudinal Study Enrollment Sites for enrolling 53 new participants for the month of August! All 11 sites contributed in making this our largest enrollment month yet for LIMBIC-CENC. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication to the study and our participants.

07/27/2022

LIMBIC-CENC’s own Dr. Laura Franke recently conducted a podcast on her new publication titled "Auditory evoked brain potentials as markers of chronic effects of mild traumatic brain injury in mid-life".

Please click on the link below to listen in.

In this episode we discuss Dr. Laura Franke's publication in Clinical Neurophysiology titled, "Auditory evoked brain potentials as markers of chronic effects of mild traumatic brain injury in mid-life".

07/19/2022

Are you a veteran who has suffered from combat related TBI? Contact the LIMBIC-CENC location nearest to you and join us today!

Thank you for your interest in LIMBIC-CENC research participation! The following sections indicate the LIMBIC-CENC studies and locations that are recruiting participants, and provide information for contacting each site: