A study published on Thursday in The Lancet Neurology has linked tissue damage to blast injuries, further connecting PTSD to changes in the brain and not solely a psychological response to exposure to battle. Of the 2.5 million United States service members who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, a 2008 study by the RAND…
ReadTaking a play from the playbook of the National Football League, the US Military has created a “Brain Bank” repository program for the study of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in veterans called the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine Brain Tissue Repository for Traumatic Brain Injury. The donations are entirely voluntary and the study is not allowed…
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