Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Don't worry if that term is new to you.
It was to me as well, until I just read Veterans and Brain Disease, today's New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof.
It is hard for anyone who pays attention to avoid knowing the high rate of suicide among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of those not killing themselves have remained seriously troubled and disturbed.
Some of this has been attributed to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
We know that people subject to the overpressure of the explosions of IEDs have suffered what has been called Traumatic Brain Injury.
Now, thanks to the autopsy after his suicide of the brain of a young Marine who had been diagnosed with PTSD
It was to me as well, until I just read Veterans and Brain Disease, today's New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof.
It is hard for anyone who pays attention to avoid knowing the high rate of suicide among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of those not killing themselves have remained seriously troubled and disturbed.
Some of this has been attributed to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
We know that people subject to the overpressure of the explosions of IEDs have suffered what has been called Traumatic Brain Injury.
Now, thanks to the autopsy after his suicide of the brain of a young Marine who had been diagnosed with PTSD