"We've learned more about the brain in the last five years than in the previous 200 years,"
Just think how far advanced the knowledge would have been, not only as to combat soldiers but civilians as well, if they had started listening back forty years ago and moved forward then instead of ignoring what's always been! We, and others, might just have avoided more wars of choice as well!
Navy Medicine Makes Strides in Treatment, Research Studies of TBI, PTSD
10/21/2010 - Navy Medicine continues to use cutting edge technologies and innovative research methods to help Wounded Warriors with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
According to Dr. Wayman Cheatham, special assistant for medical research to the Navy Surgeon General and director of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery's Navy Medicine Research and Development Center, technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), mapping of pressure changes in the brain after impact, and virtual reality therapy - unheard of in the past - are now ways to identify, diagnose, and treat TBI and PTSD.
"We've learned more about the brain in the last five years than in the previous 200 years," said Cheatham. "A huge leap forward in this venture was the opening of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE)."
The two-story, 72,000 square-foot NICoE facility, is located on the grounds of the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, Md. Equipped with state of the art technology, it is dedicated to the diagnosis, treatment, research, and education of service members experiencing TBI and other psychological health disorders. {read rest}
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