The Indiana University School of Medicine is recognized as a national leader in the research, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of traumatic brain injuries and mild traumatic brain injuries, also known as concussions. Faculty investigators at the School of Medicine and partnering organizations use innovative approaches to better understand the concussion causes and interventions to improve the overall treatment and recovery of individuals with traumatic brain injury.
Traumatic brain injury research at IU
NCAA and DoD Grand Alliance: CARE Consortium
The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the U.S. Department of Defense established the NCAA-DoD Grand Alliance: Concussion Assessment, Research and Education (CARE) Consortium to enable a large-scale, multi-site study of the neurobiological mechanisms of concussion symptoms and trajectory recovery. IU School of Medicine serves as the Administrative Core of the program, which includes 30 participating universities and military service academies across the country.
Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Center
Currently, 16 TBI Model Systems Centers exist in the United States, each providing comprehensive and multidisciplinary rehabilitation care that includes emergency medical, acute medical, and post-acute services. In addition to providing direct services, these centers play a pivotal role in building national capacity for high-quality treatment and research serving persons with traumatic brain injury, their families, and their communities. IU School of Medicine is proud to be one of the 16 funded sites in the United States.
BRAIN Center
The Brain Rehabilitation, Advanced Imaging, and Neuroscience (BRAIN) Center seeks to fill gaps in neuroscience on brain injury, neuroimaging, neurogenetics, outcome measurements, and intervention. An interdisciplinary team of researchers seeks to advance basic science and clinical knowledge to the next level of integration, translate the knowledge gained directly into clinical care for improved patient outcomes, and use the newly integrated knowledge to drive the leading edge of translational research.
InterFACE Center
The Interactive and Functional Assessment of Communication and Emotion (InterFACE) Center is a natural observation laboratory designed to research emotional and behavioral deficits in people with neurological, psychological, and developmental disorders. The InterFACE Center provides an evidence-based treatment approach in combination with state-of-the-art equipment in one lab not found anywhere else in the world. Located at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana, this facility uses physiological monitoring, video recording, and eye-tracking technology to study emotions and interpersonal relationships affected by neurological disorders and injury.
2million people sustain a TBI each year
41percent of TBIs result from a fall
30percent of all injury deaths in the U.S. are associated with TBI
75percent of TBIs each year are diagnosed as concussions
Faculty
Flora Hammond
hammondf@iupui.edu
Chair, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Brain injury, stroke, and spinal cord injury, and effectiveness of treatments
Xiaoming Jin
xijin@iupui.edu
Associate Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Traumatic brain injury plasticity and reorganization, posttraumatic epilepsy, and neuropathic pain
Keisuke Kawata
kkawata@indiana.edu
Associate Professor in Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health
Traumatic brain injury diagnosis and rehabilitation, single vs. repetitive concussive blows
Bruce T. Lamb
btlamb@iu.edu
Executive Director, Paul and Carole Stark Neurosciences Research Institute
Basic science of Alzheimer’s disease with a focus on traumatic brain injury as an environmental modifier
Thomas W. McAllister
twmcalli@iupui.edu
Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Traumatic brain injury, cognitive and behavioral difficulties, biomechanical basis of concussion, repetitive head impacts on brain structure and function
Brenna C. McDonald
mcdonalb@iupui.edu
Associate Professor of Radiology & Imaging Sciences
Traumatic brain injury, examination of structure and function
Dawn M. Neumann
dmneuman@iupui.edu
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Traumatic brain injury emotional deficits
Fletcher A. White
fawhite@iu.edu
Vergil K. Stoelting Professor of Anesthesia
Tissue-derived factors and neuropathic pain syndromes after traumatic brain injury
Yu-Chien Wu
yucwu@iu.edu
Associate Professor of Radiology & Imaging Sciences
Microstructure imaging techniques for changes in Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury
Xiao-Ming Xu
xu26@iupui.edu
Mari Hulman George Professor of Neuroscience Research
Traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury, neural reorganization, and recovery