“We’re really at an infant stage in terms of our clinical ability to assess traumatic brain injury,” a medical expert said.
was convinced years of exposure to blasts had badly damaged his brain, despite doctors telling him otherwise. He had downloaded dozens of research papers on traumatic brain injury out of frustration that no one was taking him seriously,
Earlier this month, the gunman behind Maine’s deadliest mass shooting put a national spotlight on the issue when doctors said they He enlisted in the Army Reserve in 2002 and had no combat deployments, officials said. But his family said he had been exposed to thousands of low-level blasts as a longtime instructor at an Army hand grenade training range.
Stone, an imaging expert who has studied low-level blasts in military personnel for nearly two decades, said Card’s injury “seemed pretty profound.” It can also lead to aggression and violence, experts say, but cases like Card’s that result in mass violence are rare. “These high-profile cases, thankfully, are few and far between,” Stone said. “But they are a point along the overall spectrum — the different ways that the imbalance can manifest.”
Hand grenade instructors can cycle through hundreds of trainees in one day during annual or biannual qualifications that are mandatory for some units, according to Retzer, who now works for DAV, an advocacy group formerly known as Disabled American Veterans.
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