Advanced brain scans found perplexing differences in U.S. diplomats who say they developed concussion-like symptoms after working in Cuba.
showed the workers had less white matter than a comparison group of healthy people, researchers reported Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Other structural differences were found as well.
Dozens of U.S. diplomats, family members and other workers sought exams. The new study reports on 40 of them tested at the University of Pennsylvania. Workers had MRI tests about six months after reporting problems, but because their brains were not scanned before they went to Cuba, researchers can’t tell if anything changed in their brains. The study authors acknowledged that limitation in their work.Stone said the new study has several other weaknesses, including a comparison group that wasn’t evenly matched to the patients.
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