Exploring questions about traumatic brain injury in soldiers and veterans

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In the years between 2001 & 2014 about 230,000 soldiers & veterans self-identified as suffering from “mild traumatic brain injury,” also called TBI. That’s according to estimates by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Monday WMNF News interviewed Caroline Alexander a contributing writer for National Geographic Magazine. She’s also a bestselling author and has written a number of documentary films, most recently Tiger Tiger. She wrote the February 2015 National Geographic cover story, “The Invisible War on the Brain.”

Traumatic brain injuries in military personnel are not new. But but the injuries seem to be more noticeable over the last decade or so.

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