Neuroscience
From the June 2007 APA Monitor:
A long road back
With so many service members affected by traumatic brain injuries, neuropsychologists are ramping up diagnosis and treatment
By Christopher Munsey
Monitor staff
Print version: page 34
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been called the "signature injury" of the Iraq war.
Most commonly, the injuries are caused by improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, the makeshift bombs insurgents frequently use to attack U.S. forces.
Even if soldiers are not directly hit, the shockwaves of these explosions can violently shake their brains or send shrapnel into their helmets. The result is often an injury that's much like a boxer hit with a knock-out punch.
Thanks to excellent medical care and advanced body armor, service members are surviving injuries that would have killed them in previous wars. But with that survival often comes brain damage, a decrease in cognitive abilities and a lessening of emotional self-regulation.
Psychologists, particularly neuropsychologists, are stepping in to assess the damage, help patients learn new strategies to compensate while their brains recover, and raise public awareness of the increasing number of servicemen and women with TBIs. In fact, 1,977 service members were treated for them at Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) sites from January 2003 to February 2007.
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Neuroscience
Wartime Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs)
From the June 2007 APA Monitor:
A long road back
With so many service members affected by traumatic brain injuries, neuropsychologists are ramping up diagnosis and treatment
By Christopher Munsey
Monitor staff
Print version: page 34
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been called the "signature injury" of the Iraq war.
Most commonly, the injuries are caused by improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, the makeshift bombs insurgents frequently use to attack U.S. forces.
Even if soldiers are not directly hit, the shockwaves of these explosions can violently shake their brains or send shrapnel into their helmets. The result is often an injury that's much like a boxer hit with a knock-out punch.
Thanks to excellent medical care and advanced body armor, service members are surviving injuries that would have killed them in previous wars. But with that survival often comes brain damage, a decrease in cognitive abilities and a lessening of emotional self-regulation.
Psychologists, particularly neuropsychologists, are stepping in to assess the damage, help patients learn new strategies to compensate while their brains recover, and raise public awareness of the increasing number of servicemen and women with TBIs. In fact, 1,977 service members were treated for them at Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) sites from January 2003 to February 2007.
[ ... Read the full article ... ]
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From The New York Times website: Screening for Brain Injury Is Set for Illinois Veterans By LIBBY SANDER Published: July 4, 2007 CHICAGO, July 3 — Frustrated with the federal government’s response to the mental health needs of soldiers, Illinois...
- Media: Bob Woodruff - To Iraq And Back
...
- War-related Traumatic Brain Injury (tbi)
This week's New England Journal of Medicine offers the full-text contents of a Perspectives piece about brain injuries related to warfare: Susan Okie. Traumatic Brain Injury in the War Zone. New England Journal of Medicine 2005, 352: 2043-2047. Read...
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