The Medical University of South Carolina has been awarded more than $11 million in federal funding to establish a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) to build resilience after trauma. The South Carolina Building Resilience through Innovative Interventions to promote Growth and Health after Trauma COBRE (the BRIGHT Center) will establish research cores in digital health, community-engaged research and implementation science to support and maximize the impact of traumatic stress research, with an emphasis on supporting early-career trauma investigators.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is more common in people who experience extensive repetitive head impacts, and infrequent among individuals with isolated brain injuries or less extensive impacts, researchers from the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai have found.