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Brain Injury is not New to Iraq
Today’s blog, is a video blog, a bit of a rant about someone who should know better, who made this statement: “Correct if I am wrong, but I think Traumatic Brain Injury is a new injury unique to the war in Iraq. Suffered by people who have concussive injuries from being near the explosions, not ...
Vietnam Remains Our Biggest Military Health Issue
As we shift our focus of this blog to the emotional side of the synergistic neuropsychiatric disability that faces combat vets, I want to put the context of current soldier suicides and PTSD into perspective. This series of blogs began with my reaction to this news: “The Associated Press announced that active duty military suicides ...
Hysteria or Conversion Diagnosis Focuses on Perceived Character Flaws, not Relevant Injury Factors
In understanding the stain that the “hysteria” diagnosis has left on our medical science, it is important to distinguish “hysteria” from PTSD. The modern term for hysteria (if there should even be a modern term for it) is “Conversion Disorder”. See DSM-IV 300.11. PTSD is an entirely different matter as it relates to the development ...
Understanding the Biomechanics of War Time Brain Injuries
Previous blogs in this series have focused on the contrast between the quality of the meticulous description of history and symptoms by Charles Myers’ in his seminal 1915 Lancet paper on “Shell Shock” and his clearly flawed “comment” that these case studies were explained by hysteria. Yesterday’s blog focused on how he documented, but didn’t ...
Loss of Smell was a Missed Sign of Brain Injury in World War I Shell Shock
Previous blogs in this series have focused on the contrast between the quality of the meticulous description of history by Charles Myers’ in his seminal 1915 Lancet paper on “Shell Shock” and his clearly flawed comment that these case studies were explained by hysteria. See “A Contribution to the Study of Shell Shock” published in ...
Amnesia was a Missed Marker of Brain Injury in World War I Shell Shock
In this series of blogs, we have been focusing on the synergistic interplay between the emotional problems related to combat stress and war-time brain injuries. The previous blog focused on Charles Myers’ 1915 case studies of three British soldiers injured in World War I, and what we believe to be his failure to properly factor ...
Lancet Case Study of Three World War I Soldiers with Shell Shock
As introduced in yesterday’s blog, Captain Charles Myers, a British Physician authored a significant case study of three wounded soldiers with shell shock in the Lancet, the publication of the British Medical Society. See C.S. Myers, “A Contribution to the Study of Shell Shock” The Lancet, on February 13, 1915 page 316-320. Myers begins his ...
World War I Literature Shows the Reluctance to Identify Brain Injury in Shell Shock Soldiers
I owe my perception of the World War I literature on Shell Shock to a good friend’s academic pursuit of such topic while at Yale. The below quotes are from a paper discussing the dichotic treatment of shell shock as an emotional/organic injury in the novel: Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West. Quoting from ...
The Nightmare of a Wartime Brain Injury
Modern warfare has become such a nightmare, that when our soldiers come home from war with nightmares, we don’t even bother to consider whether those nightmares could be caused by injuries to their brains. The mind is the most complex thing studied by man, perhaps the least understood. The 20th century saw an explosion of ...
Understanding Combat Related Suicide Requires a Comprehensive Evaluation of all that is Wrong Inside the Head
The cause of suicide: “it’s all in the head.” That cliché is said typically about psychological problems. But the brain injury community likes to twist this cliché, with a tone of irony, pointing out that a brain injury, is also “in the head.” While our psyche is in our head – our brain’s structures, our ...
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