Experts say the gunman’s brain tissue points to traumatic injury ‘likely’ caused by blasts in the line of duty; the Army ...

When military personnel fire certain powerful weapons, they are exposed to a blast wave that sends blood surging from the body to the brain. This "tsunami in the body" is one way a blast can injure ...

He was medically retired from the Army in 2018, and those who served with him believed it came from the blast overpressure-related brain injury he suffered in Iraq. "I feel like all those shells ...

In Metcalf’s brain, researchers found damage that they have seen “again and again” in the brains of veterans with repeated ...

On Monday, Sens. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, and Angus King, I-Maine, introduced the Precision Brain Health Research Act, which mandates a 10-year study on the blast injuries. The two lawmakers hope ...

And because the military does not currently have a comprehensive blast monitoring program, no one really knows how many times Card was exposed. Though there’s clear evidence that repeated brain ...

Nicole Herling was praying for brain disease. That's rarely happy news. But for her, it offered a potential answer to a haunting question: why, in less than a year, had her brother transformed ...