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CECD Holds First Symposium on Traumatic Brain Injury
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Attendees at the Symposium on Cooperative Research on Traumatic Brain Injury
Brain trauma is the signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, resulting in death or severe permanent brain injury to several thousand warfighters and long-term neuropsychologic problems associated with mild traumatic brain injury to many thousand additional troops. The most common cause of these catastrophic injuries is exposure to blasts, particularly those associated with improvised explosive devices.
For more on this story, please visit the January 2010 issue of Between the Columns, "Protecting Troops From Combat-Related Brain Injuries."
Published January 19, 2010