Aysenil Belger receives Department of Defense Grant.
Elbogen, Belger awarded Department of Defense Grant
Department of Psychiatry faculty members Eric B. Elbogen, PhD, and Aysenil Belger, PhD, been awarded a multi-year multimillion dollar grant from the Department of Defense and the Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program (PH/TBI) Research Program to implement a clinical trial to assess the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitative therapy for TBI for members or former members of the Armed Forces. They will use the grant to implement a clinical trial to assess the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitative therapy for TBI for members or former members of the Armed Forces.
The project entitled “Neural Markers and Rehabilitation of Executive Functioning in Veterans with TBI and PTSD” will use magnetic resonance imaging, brain electrophysiological recordings, and neurocognitive assessment tools to map the neural circuits that mediate cognitive impairment associated with combined mTBI/PTSD diagnoses, and their reorganization following cognitive rehabilitation.