{"id":5736,"date":"2015-01-23T16:15:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5736"},"modified":"2015-01-23T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T21:15:12","slug":"the-invisible-war-on-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/23\/the-invisible-war-on-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible War on the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/23\/the-invisible-war-on-the-brain\/goldstein_thumb\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5737\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/01\/goldstein_thumb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"goldstein_thumb\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5737\" \/><\/a>National Geographic<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/about\/team\/faculty\/goldstein\/\">Lee Goldstein<\/a>, MD, PhD, psychiatry, neurology, ophthalmology<\/h4>\n<p>Brain trauma from blast force is the signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, afflicting hundreds of thousands of U.S. combat personnel. Although unseen, the damage strikes deeply into a soldier\u2019s mind and psyche.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Quote:<\/h3>\n<p>To test the theory that blast exposure may have triggered CTE pathology, Goldstein\u2019s team exposed mice to a single shock-tube blast that simulated the effects of a moderate-size explosive. High-speed cameras captured the results\u2014a rapid bobble-head effect, as the heads of the mice shook back and forth in reaction to the force. In 30 milliseconds, far less than the blink of an eye, the oscillating wind had spiked and dipped nine times. \u201cIn one blast you\u2019re really getting multiple hits,\u201d Goldstein said. \u201cSo it\u2019s like you\u2019re packing a whole bunch of hits into a very short time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/healing-soldiers\/blast-force.html\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic Lee Goldstein, MD, PhD, psychiatry, neurology, ophthalmology Brain trauma from blast force is the signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, afflicting hundreds of thousands of U.S. combat personnel. Although unseen, the damage strikes deeply into a soldier\u2019s mind and psyche. &nbsp; Quote: To test the theory that blast exposure may have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}