“Washington (AFP) – US military members who are exposed to repeated blasts in a war zone may suffer permanent damage in parts of the brain that lend emotional stability, said a study Wednesday.”
“Researchers have described mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) — more commonly called “concussion” — as the “signature injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said the report in the US journal Science Translational Medicine.”
Read more in a news report “War zone blasts may alter brain permanently: study”, Yahoo! News, January 13, 2016.
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“Washington (AFP) – US military members who are exposed to repeated blasts in a war zone may suffer permanent damage in parts of the brain that lend emotional stability, said a study Wednesday.”
“Researchers have described mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) — more commonly called “concussion” — as the “signature injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said the report in the US journal Science Translational Medicine.”
Read more in a news report “War zone blasts may alter brain permanently: study”, Yahoo! News, January 13, 2016.
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