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Appendix D: Centers, Consortiums, and Collaborations for PTSD Research
Pages 249-260

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... Appendix D Centers, Consortiums, and Collaborations for PTSD Research 249
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... The goal of identifying the Medical Center causes and most effective treatments for serious mental illnesses is accomplished through collaborations in four core domains: research, education, clinical interventions, and evaluation. Source/Program website: http://www.mirecc.va.gov/national-mirecc-overview.asp VISN 4 MIRECC: VA The focus of the center is the treatment and prevention of comorbid medical, Comorbidity of Philadelphia VA Medical mental health, and/or substance use disorders, with the aim of improving the psychiatric disorders with Center and VA Pittsburgh mental and physical health, quality of life, and outcomes of health care services physical illness and/or Healthcare System for veterans with mental illness.
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... assess the longitudinal course of postdeployment mental illness. Source/Program website: http://www.mirecc.va.gov/national-mirecc-overview.asp VISN 16 MIRECC: VA The South Central MIRECC's organizational structure includes four major Serving Rural and Other The MIRECC has anchor components: research, education, improving clinical care, and research Underserved Populations sites at five medical training.
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... collaborate with others in the study and treatment of veterans who are at risk of suicide. Source/Program website: http://www.mirecc.va.gov/national-mirecc-overview.asp VISN 20 MIRECC: VA The Northwest MIRECC applies modern genetic, neurobiological, and clinical Schizophrenia, PTSD and VA Puget Sound Health trial methodology to the discovery and development of new and more effective Dementia Care System treatments for major and often treatment-resistant mental disorders afflicting veterans and the active-duty combat personnel.
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... The center works collaboratively with other VA centers that specialize in care management of mental health disorders to successfully blend the two components. Source/Program website: http://www.mirecc.va.gov/national-mirecc-overview.asp VISN 2: Suicide VA The Suicide Prevention center is organized as a prevention and research center Prevention Canandaigua VA Medical with the overarching goal of reducing the morbidity and mortality in the veteran Center population associated with suicide.
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... Its vision is to be the foremost leader in information on PTSD and trauma; information generated internally through its extensive research program; and information synthesized from published scientific research and collective clinical experience that is efficiently disseminated to the field. The center is organized to facilitate rapid translation of science into practice, ensuring that the latest research findings inform clinical care, and translation of practice into science, assuring that questions raised by clinical challenges are addressed using rigorous experimental protocols.
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... Defense Centers of DoD DCoE oversees three centers, each of which contributes unique insights, Excellence (DCoE) standards, clinical tools, and research products to the fields of psychological health and TBI: the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the Deployment Health Clinical Center, and the National Center for Telehealth and Technology.
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... $100 million total; NIH: $40 million; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: $50 million; National Science Foundation: $20 million; plus more than $120 million from private-sector partners) Source/Program website: http://www.nih.gov/science/brain South Texas Research DoD STRONG STAR is a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research Organizational Network Psychological Health and consortium to develop and evaluate the most effective early interventions Guiding Studies on Traumatic Brain Injury possible for the detection, prevention, and treatment of combat-related PTSD in Trauma and Resilience Research Program active-duty military personnel and recently discharged veterans.
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... Source/Program website: http://www.armystarrs.org/about Injury and Traumatic University of California, The overarching goal is to combine the efforts of the nation's leading Stress (INTRuST) San Diego investigators to bring to market novel treatments or interventions that will PTSD and TBI Clinical ultimately decrease the impact of military-relevant psychological health Consortium problems and TBI.
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... Source/Program website: https://www.ncire.org/about_ncire Millennium Cohort Study DoD The Millennium Cohort Study is the largest prospective health project in Headquartered at the military history. It is designed to evaluate the long-term health effects of Naval Health Research military service, including deployments.
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... Data will be stored anonymously for research on diseases like diabetes and cancer and military-related illnesses, such as PTSD. Source/Program website: http://www.research.va.gov/mvp Military Suicide Research DoD As part of DoD's comprehensive suicide prevention strategy, the Military Consortium Florida State University Suicide Research Consortium, will research the causes and prevention of and the Denver VA suicide.


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