Dr. Jennifer Lundine and Dr. Jacek Kolacz (OSU College of Medicine, Dept of Psychiatry) have been awarded a 2023 OSU Chronic Brain Injury Pilot Award grant for the project titled: Hyperarousal and Executive Functioning in Young Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury: NIRS-Based Prefrontal Cortical Assessment. The objective of this $25,000 one-year award is to assess the contribution of arousal regulation and prefrontal cortex to executive function deficits in young adults with traumatic brain injury.