Journal of Neurotrauma Blast Issue Released as the July Issue.

The July issue of the Journal of Neurotrauma, features eight articles focused on the critical problem of blast-induced traumatic brain injury (TBI) and polytrauma. As a consequence of the Iraq war, blast injury has reached a new level of importance due to the high numbers of these types of injuries seen in our warfighters, and includes a wide spectrum of them, ranging from mild to severe. The pathobiology of blast-induced TBI remains poorly understood, and is complicated by many factors such as repetitive exposure and superimposed polytrauma, such as extremity injuries and burns. Blast injury is also emerging as a potential threat in civilian terrorism—such as that seen in the Madrid bombing in 2004—where combined insults such as blast-induced lung injury and TBI were observed. We believe that the scope of articles in this issue appropriately reflects the multi-system nature of this condition in its most severe form.  This issue is co-edited by investigators at both the Safar Center and Walter Reed Army Institute for Research.