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Defense Department is Catching Up on Brain Injury Care

Defense Department is Catching Up on Brain Injury Care

I have no doubt that the research being touted by the department will one day benefit all soldiers and private citizens who have suffered traumatic brain damage. My only question is what has taken so long-we’re 10 years into the War on Terror in which brain injury has been recognized as the signature injury of the War?

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Area Brain Injury Expert Discusses Rep. Giffords’ Traumatic Brain Injury

AAN.com: The fictional story The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Book III in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) left many readers believing that you can survive a bullet wound to the head without any residual effects. Is that true?

O’Shanick: What makes a good story doesn’t necessarily parallel reality. Harrison Ford, in his portrayal of a lawyer who survives a shooting in the 1991 movie “Regarding Henry” was a more accurate depiction of the challenges that occur following an injury.

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