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Research

The research program of the NY TBI Model System is designed to advance our understanding of the consequences of TBI and ways to improve rehabilitation outcomes.

Currently, two research projects are being implemented:

• Treatment of Post-TBI Depression
• Post-TBI Fatigue and Its Treatment

As a further research activity, the NY TBI Model System contributes data to a national TBI database on approximately 40 new patients receiving model system services per year. Currently in this database (housed at Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation) are data from hundreds of individuals with TBI from across the country; each person’s data are collected upon discharge from inpatient services and then yearly thereafter. Researchers from the New York TBI Model System and from the other U.S. centers – together and separately – use the database to answer basic questions about outcomes of services and the consequences of TBI in daily life over many years after injury.