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How TBI and PTSD Are Treated Now in Comparison to the Past

Jordan Grafman, PhD
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Since the WW I, WW II, and Vietnam, there has been more programmatic effort to treat and evaluate soldiers with TBI and PTSD. But are these issues any better resolved than they were 30, 50, 100 years ago?

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Posted on BrainLine February 12, 2013.

Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough, Justin Rhodes, and Erica Queen, BrainLine.