BY KELLY OGLE
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder affects half a million veterans in the United States. In Oklahoma, 11,590 veterans were treated for PTSD last year in outpatient clinics with the Oklahoma City VA Health Care System and 817 veterans were hospitalized for the illness.
More than 50 brain banks exist in the United States — allowing researchers to study brain tissue samples from donor’s suffering from alcoholism, Alzheimer’s disease and even depression. Yet there has never been a brain bank to study PTSD – until now.
Boyd Barclay, an Oklahoma Vietnam War Veteran, knows all too well the pain PTSD causes.
“All of a sudden it comes through your mind just in a flash,” he said about his time serving in the Vietnam War.
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