2011 年 31 巻 2 号 p. 164-170
Returning US Service Members from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have experienced an extremely high number of injuries, often blast-related which include Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and chronic pain. Additionally among these potential hundreds of thousands of Service Members with TBI, the majority experience mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and are capable of a return to university studies and lifelong careers. The MindKnit Research Center is developing partnerships for sharing interdisciplinary research, integrated healthcare and university reintegration, models to recruit and train mentors, such as from the national Volunteer Portal under the White House with over 220,000 volunteers. Additionally, the Japan NRCD has partnered together with MindKnit Research Center and the US Veterans Health Affairs to build and sustain a vibrant “US-Japan Exchange” to share US and Japanese research, clinical, rehabilitation, reintegration and cultural models and national healthcare models to benefit both the hundreds of thousands of Service Members with TBI, but also the hundreds of thousands of persons with Brain Injury in Japan, and the 1.7 million persons with Brain Injury in the United States. Finally, this paper addresses a national Veterans Affairs healthcare study to build a nationwide model for Supported Education systems partnering the VA healthcare, university faculty and leaders, and potentially community experts such as the MindKnit Research Center and the White House Volunteer Portal-to provide successful reintegration to university for the hundreds of thousands of capable Service Member with TBI. This paper was presented as the US Co-Moderator of the Japan-US Exchange at the 34th Annual Conference of the Japan Higher Brain Disorder Society.
