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SILVER SPRING, Md. (June 2, 2025) Rachel Barkey and Rania Abutarboush, with Naval Medical Research Command’s (NMRC) Operational Undersea Medicine Directorate, review data for a study on brain injury. Brain injury poses a serious health threat to U.S. service members across the world. Cognitive impairment resulting from brain injury can negatively impact individual health, unit readiness and the lethal capacity of the nation’s forces. NMRC, headquarters of Navy Medicine Research & Development, is engaged in a broad spectrum of activity from basic science in the laboratory to field studies in austere and remote areas of the world to investigations in operational environments. In support of Navy, Marine Corps and joint U.S. warfighter health, readiness and lethality, researchers study infectious diseases, biological warfare detection and defense, combat casualty care, environmental health concerns, aerospace and undersea medicine, operational mission support and epidemiology. (U.S. Navy photo by Sidney Hinds/ Released)