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Issues range from post-deployment behavior issues to wheelchair and prosthetic design and function.

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Polytrauma care for Veterans, vitamin deficiency among people with spinal cord injuries and advances in prosthetics research are discussed.

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This multi-topic issue includes research topics with relevance for Veterans and non-Veterans alike. Reaching Veterans and finding unique ways to overcome barriers to care has become a greater priority for the VA. Two guest editorials in this issue look at ways this is happening, including setting up services on college campuses and using horses in rehabilitation to improve the quality of life for our Veterans.

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JRRD Volume 50, Issue 7, produced by the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is now available online at http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/ jour/2013/507/contents507.html.

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Topics ranging from PTSD to cognitive performance that have a direct effect on Veterans and the rehabilitation care and support they may receive.

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The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, JRRD, is celebrating 50 years of publishing about the latest in rehabilitation research.

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Topics range from the psychosocial adjustment following traumatic amputation to hand function after stroke in the latest issue of JRRD, which is now available at http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/ 2012/4910/ataglance4910.html.

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A multi-topic issue featuring a range of topics related to rehabilitation research and development.

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A multi-topic issue.

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Although research misconduct in all its forms can damage the integrity and prestige of the scientific community, it has often not been taken as seriously as it should be. However, leaders in science and publishing are beginning to regard misconduct as the threat that it really is.

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This special, single topic issue, which includes four guest editorials related to the 2010 revisions of the VA and DoD clinical practice guidelines for the management and treatment of post traumatic stress, also look at the guidelines from varying perspectives and provide some of the background and methodology considered in making the revisions.

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JRRD participating in multi-city tour of mainland China.

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Volume 49, Issue number 2 of the JRRD is now available at http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/ jour/2012/492/contents492.html.

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This issue comprises two single-topic sections. The first includes six articles on wheelchair engineering. The second discusses findings from the outcomes measures in rehabilitation state-of-the-art (SOTA) conference.

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This multi-topic issue contains 11 articles describing research in the areas of prosthetics, postdeployment reintegration, activity-promoting gaming systems, step activity monitoring, and repeated concussions in veterans.

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A multi-topic issue of 10 articles on complementary medicine, hand-cycling biomechanics, prosthetic ankles, intelligent wheelchair design, and physical activity interventions, and more.

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A multi-topic issue presenting research on homelessness, OIF/OEF veteran driving difficulties, prosthetic control and durability, sitting-pivot wheelchair transfers, and stroke rehabilitation.

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This multi-topic issue contains 10 articles on issues ranging from tracheal prostheses, wheelchair securement, collision-avoidance power wheelchairs, to stability training.

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This single-topic issue contains 11 articles on the control of powered upper-limb prostheses. Full-text articles are available at http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jrrd

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This multi-topic issue contains 10 articles ranging in topic from PTSD, tinnitus, and multiple sclerosis. Full-text articles are available at http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/11/485/contents485.html