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The study, which is the first to examine the longer-term brain health of veteransexposed to bomb blasts, was published this week in Brain: A Journal of Neurology.
“These are exposures to blasts, not necessarily blasts that lead to concussion, that feeling of fuzziness or getting knocked out,” said Dr. Regina McGlinchey, a study leader at the VA Boston and director of the Translational Research Center for TBI [Traumatic Brain Injuries] and Stress Disorders, or TRACTS. “These are events where the veterans themselves thought they were just fine.”
Veterans who were exposed to bomb blasts, even up to a football field away, showed aging in brain images designed to detect the “leakiness” and fraying of the white matter in the brain, a part of the central nervous system that one researcher compared to an “old telephone wire system.” The results
showed the same damage that happens in the normal aging process, only at a much faster rate.
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