Scanning invisible damage of PTSD, brain blasts

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Mon, 11/09/2009 - 13:56

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries - signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars....


 

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