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Take a brand-new research facility, then add a neighboring U.S. Army base with one of the largest veteran populations of any health care network and a world-class team of researchers—that’s a “recipe for success,” says Dr. Michael Russell, director of the VA Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans in Waco, Texas.
The 53,000-square-foot center is designed to conduct state-of-the-art research on mental health problems associated with PTSD and TBI, “signature wounds” of conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East. The flagship study is named Project MAVEREX. Researchers will examine whether the inability of the regions in injured brains to communicate with one another worsens behavior outcomes. Using “cutting-edge data analysis techniques,” they hope to characterize the effects of TBI on brain structure and function “with very high precision,” says Dr. Evan Gordon, a cognitive neuroscientist working on MAVEREX.
The Center of Excellence is on the campus of the historic Doris Miller VAMC. The facility has space for 75 staff members and faculty as well as 25 trainees. It features multiple examination rooms, observation rooms, electrocardiography, electroencephalography, a 3 Tesla MRI, a transcranial magnetic stimulation suite, and a custom-built laboratory wing.
Take a brand-new research facility, then add a neighboring U.S. Army base with one of the largest veteran populations of any health care network and a world-class team of researchers—that’s a “recipe for success,” says Dr. Michael Russell, director of the VA Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans in Waco, Texas.
The 53,000-square-foot center is designed to conduct state-of-the-art research on mental health problems associated with PTSD and TBI, “signature wounds” of conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East. The flagship study is named Project MAVEREX. Researchers will examine whether the inability of the regions in injured brains to communicate with one another worsens behavior outcomes. Using “cutting-edge data analysis techniques,” they hope to characterize the effects of TBI on brain structure and function “with very high precision,” says Dr. Evan Gordon, a cognitive neuroscientist working on MAVEREX.
The Center of Excellence is on the campus of the historic Doris Miller VAMC. The facility has space for 75 staff members and faculty as well as 25 trainees. It features multiple examination rooms, observation rooms, electrocardiography, electroencephalography, a 3 Tesla MRI, a transcranial magnetic stimulation suite, and a custom-built laboratory wing.
Take a brand-new research facility, then add a neighboring U.S. Army base with one of the largest veteran populations of any health care network and a world-class team of researchers—that’s a “recipe for success,” says Dr. Michael Russell, director of the VA Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans in Waco, Texas.
The 53,000-square-foot center is designed to conduct state-of-the-art research on mental health problems associated with PTSD and TBI, “signature wounds” of conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East. The flagship study is named Project MAVEREX. Researchers will examine whether the inability of the regions in injured brains to communicate with one another worsens behavior outcomes. Using “cutting-edge data analysis techniques,” they hope to characterize the effects of TBI on brain structure and function “with very high precision,” says Dr. Evan Gordon, a cognitive neuroscientist working on MAVEREX.
The Center of Excellence is on the campus of the historic Doris Miller VAMC. The facility has space for 75 staff members and faculty as well as 25 trainees. It features multiple examination rooms, observation rooms, electrocardiography, electroencephalography, a 3 Tesla MRI, a transcranial magnetic stimulation suite, and a custom-built laboratory wing.