DoD Psychological Health/ Traumatic Brain Injury, Complex Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Research, Clinical Research Award – Department of Defense

The FY18 PH/TBIRP CTRR-CRA is intended to support clinical
research focused on understanding the clinical sequelae and mechanisms of
recovery associated with TBI and TBI rehabilitation interventions. The
overarching goals of this award are to address TBI-related impairments and
deficits, including multimodal, and cognitive dysfunction to (1) develop and
validate rehabilitation outcome measures; (2) systematically analyze standard
of care cognitive interventions to identify optimal treatment ingredients; and
(3) improve clinician-driven assessment strategies to guide return-to-duty decision
making.

The FY18 PH/TBIRP CTRR-CRA seeks research to develop and
validate novel outcome measures that will characterize and track functional
cognitive performance in Service members and relevant populations with
cognitive dysfunction following TBI; and to identify key treatment ingredients
to optimize cognitive rehabilitation following TBI, as consistent with the
mission of the JPC-8/CRMRP.

The proposed research must be relevant to active duty
Service members, Veterans, and their beneficiaries. It is expected that any
research findings will also provide benefit to the general population.

The FY18 PH/TBIRP CTRR-CRA mechanism supports applied and
translational clinical research to advance the development of knowledge and
materiel products for rehabilitation and restoration of function following TBI.
Applicants should explain how their work will inform the development,
refinement, and/or revision of existing standards of care, clinical
recommendations, or guidelines.