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Corps mandates predeployment TBI test (www.marinecorpstimes.com)
Marines readying for deployment to war zones must now undergo a battery of computerized tests assessing whether they have suffered a traumatic brain injury. “Baseline predeployment neurocognitive... More
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Bases brace for stress-related disorders (www.militarytimes.com)
Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and... More
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Vets groups raise funds for hard-hit Guardsman (www.armytimes.com)
Spc. Glenn Barker is trying to recover after suffering a traumatic brain injury while serving in Iraq, the death of his 15-year-old son earlier this year, and flood damage that left his home... More
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Doctors can now detect mild brain injuries more easily (www.usatoday.com)
Scientists are coming up with new ways to detect mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and treat it, according to research presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience... More
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The high costs of brain injury (www.newsreview.com)
Terry McGowan is an intelligent, capable man with the vocabulary of a college professor. Listening to him talk, you’d never know he has dealt with traumatic brain injury (TBI) since he was 9 months... More
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Combat to College (www.nytimes.com)
KEVIN BLANCHARD’S freshman year at George Washington University was unlike anybody else’s on campus. Crowded classrooms routinely sent him into a panic. Cubicles triggered tunnel vision. He... More
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Easing the transition from military to civilian (www.pittsburghlive.com)
For many of those who serve their country, returning home does not necessarily guarantee a smooth transition back to everyday living. Suffering from the traumas of war, between 12 percent and 20... More
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Wounded vets helped at Idaho, Mich. colleges (www.militarytimes.com)
The demons don’t visit nearly as often as they did when Bart Gutke was sent home from the Iraq in 2006, a 21-year-old with a traumatic brain injury. He was discharged from the Marine Corps a year... More
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Legislation signed to help vets get PTSD screening (lakeconews.com)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sept. 30 signed SB 1401 by Sen. Joe Simitian (D- Palo Alto) and AB 3083 by the Assembly Committee on Veterans Affairs, measures that will extend mental health services to... More
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Congress approves $2.4 million for National Trauma Institute - San Antonio Business Journal: (washington.bizjournals.com)
The National Trauma Institute is slated to receive a $2.4 million federal appropriation that should help advance trauma treatment for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. The institute is part... More
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