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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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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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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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Veteran with traumatic brain injury feels lost in the fog of war (www.kansascity.com)
Marshall Dial sits at the picnic table and slides packages of chocolate wafers and licorice sticks to his friend, a fellow Iraq war veteran.
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New VA policy gives more help to troops with TBIs | Stars and Stripes (www.stripes.com)
Veterans can be evaluated as 100 percent disabled for traumatic brain injury if they meet certain criteria, said Tom Pamperin, of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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VA to increase benefits for mild brain trauma (www.usatoday.com)
The government plans to substantially increase disability benefits for veterans with mild traumatic brain injuries, acknowledging for the first time that veterans suffering from this less severe... More
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Behavioral Health Conference Looks for Best Ways to Help Veterans (www.defenselink.mil)
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Memory loss haunts injured Iraq War veteran (www.ajc.com)
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