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Preclinical modelling of militarily relevant traumatic brain injuries: Challenges and recommendations for future directions

Ibolja CernakMilitary and Veterans’ Clinical Rehabilitation Research, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Donald G. SteinEmory School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine Brain Research Laboratory, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Gregory A. ElderJames J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA;Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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Stephn AhlersOperational and Undersea Medicine, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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Kenneth CurleyIatrikos Research and Development Strategies, LLC, Tampa, FL, USA;Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Ralph G. DePalmaVA ORD & Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, USA
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John DudaParkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center, Philadelphia VA Medical Center; and Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Milos IkonomovicDepartment of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Grant L. IversonNeuropsychology Outcome Assessment Laboratory, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Firas KobeissyPsychoproteomics and Nanotechnology Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, The Evelyn F and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Vassilis E. KoliatsosDepartment of Pathology (Neuropathology) and Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Michael J. Leggieri Jr.DoD Blast Injury Research Program Coordinating Office, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Ft Detrick, MD, USA
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Anthony M. PacificoAlzheimer’s and Epilepsy Research Programs, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs; US Department of Health and Human Services, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, Fort Detrick, MD, USA
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Douglas H. SmithThe Robert A. Groff Professor of Neurosurgery/Research and Education, Department of Neurosurgery/PENN’s Center for Brain Injury and Repair, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Raymond SwansonDepartment of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; and Neurology Service, SFVAMC, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Floyd J. ThompsonBrain Rehabilitation Research Center, Malcom Randall VAMC; Physiological Sciences and Professor Emeritus, Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Frank C. TortellaBranch of Brain Trauma Neuroprotection and Neurorestoration, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Silver Spring, MD, USA
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Pages 1168-1176 | Received 17 Jul 2016, Accepted 23 Nov 2016, Published online: 05 Oct 2017

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