Study: Veterans with Brain Trauma and PTSD are worse off than those with either Diagnosis

Veterans who have both brain trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder might have worse outcomes than those with only one of those diagnoses, according to researchers from the University of Kentucky. Walter High and others at the university are scheduled to publish a paper in the Journal of Neurotrauma that will shed light on the subject, according to a December press release. The study examined how veterans coming back from armed conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan did on tests evaluating their cognitive processing speed, intelligence quotient, verbal memory, psychological distress and other me...