Battle Concussions Tied to Stress Disorder
I found a recent article in the New York Times addressing the link between traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder in our service men and women returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine is the military’s first large-scale effort to gauge the effect of mild head injuries that some experts worry may be causing a host of undiagnosed neurological deficiencies.
The new report found that soldiers who had concussions were more likely than those with other injuries to report a variety of physical and mental symptoms in their first months back home, including headaches, poor sleep and balance problems. In addition to those issues, these soldiers were also at higher risk for suffering from stress disorders.
You can read more on this study and the findings here.