War on terror vets suffer frequent head trauma
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In the sixth floor speech therapy lab at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Specialist Hugo Gonzalez is working to rebuild what he&#39;s lost.
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Thousands of U.S. troops with physical injuries and mental health problems are encountering a benefits system that is already overburdened.
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Multiple combat deployments, including one where he saw a close friend die, damaged the mental health of a Marine who pleaded guilty to his role in the kidnapping and killing of an Iraqi civilian, his psychologist testified Friday.
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A therapist helps to rebuild functions (and families) shattered by brain trauma.
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WASHINGTON -- Contractors who have worked in Iraq are returning home with the same kinds of combat-related mental health problems that afflict US military personnel, according to contractors, industry officials, and mental health specialists.
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U.S. troops returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer "daunting and growing" psychological problems -- with nearly 40 percent of soldiers, a third of Marines and half of the National Guard members reporting symptoms -- but the military's cadre of mental-health workers is "woefully...
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You'd think the details would be scorched into a veteran's memory like a cattle brand: ducking gunfire, seeing someone die in battle, bracing against a blast's concussion. Who could forget?
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The trauma center's radio crackles an alert: A 34-year-old woman injured in an auto wreck is being brought in by helicopter. Parts of her scalp have been torn back, exposing her skull. Broken bones may be sticking out through the skin of her left leg. Her injuries may help save the lives of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
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The health care system for veterans is facing a potential deluge of soldiers returning from Iraq with serious mental health problems.
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For many soldiers and family members, the repercussions of wartime deployments are one of the toughest, least discussed byproducts of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Leaders of a presidential commission on Wednesday implored Congress to quickly pass measures providing lifetime treatment to Iraq war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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NEW YORK -- The facts of Omar Ahmed Khadr's case are grim. The shrapnel from the grenade he is accused of throwing ripped through the skull of Sergeant First Class Christopher J. Speer, who was 28 .
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Advances in treatment of horrific battlefield injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan that have saved the lives of many U.S. soldiers who would have died in previous wars may yield valuable techniques for treating civilian trauma victims, military doctors said.
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Virtual Iraq is a simulation created to treat Iraq war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Sgt. Ryan Kahlor has the same nightmare every time, a vision of walls painted in blood and fat, and men on top of houses, throwing pieces of Marine's bodies off rooftops. It's a vision he can't shake, because he lived through it while deployed to Iraq last year.
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Scientists hope a high-tech virtual experience that mimics the battlegrounds of Iraq can be used to help veterans recover from the trauma of war.
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Traumatic brain injury cases, the signature wound of the Iraq war, are leaving the military health care system scrambling.