Traumatic brain injury has become known as the signature injury of the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet it may represent just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the long-term neurological and financial costs of the wars. Post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic epilepsy add enormously to the burden, speakers at the Presidential Symposium of the annual ANA meeting said, and the long-term, disabling nature of these problems will help push the eventual cost of the Iraq conflict alone to more than $3 trillion, according to one expert…
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