Blast Waves and the Brain: A View From The Front

In war zones, IED blast waves are causing traumatic brain injury (TBI) in many survivors, who often then develop cognitive problems. This short documentary examines the research of a scientist — who's also a veteran — into understanding and treating TBI.

Interviewee: Kit Parker, Director, Disease Biophysics Group, Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences; Captain, U.S. Army Reserves (Afghanistan veteran)

2008

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.