Another research project trying to connect PTSD and TBI

How much more money will they spend on trying to connect PTSD and TBI? The only thing they are connected to is the event itself.

50 years ago they didn't know much about what breaking your head can do. I know because it happened to me. Back then they didn't know a lot about what we now call Traumatic Brain Injury when my scull was cracked. It is one thing to have an accident (I've had many of those) and another to have it caused by the actions of someone else. I was pushed off a very high slide by another kid. I went head first onto concrete. My scull was not the only thing harmed by this. My brain was too. I do not have PTSD, which is a totally different wound to the mind. PTSD is caused by having your life in danger. One thing I know a lot about even though I have never served in the military. One is not connected to the other but they are connected to what happened.

Why are they still trying to put both together? Why are they spending so much money doing research that has already been done and did not find what they hoped to produce? They would be better off actually trying to come up with better healing for both wounds since what they have been doing has not worked.

Vietnam vets wanted for research study
1 hour ago
By THE HERALD

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking for Wisconsin Vietnam veterans for a study on the possible connections between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), and the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

The study, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, is being conducted at approximately 20 research sites across the U.S., including the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at UW-Madison.

The study calls for four groups of Vietnam veterans: those with TBI, those with PTSD, those with combined TBI/PTSD and a control group that has neither TBI nor PTSD. Any participant needs to be free of significant memory problems before starting the study.
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Even a mugger honored service of veteran

Reservist’s Army ID stops muggers in their tracks

By Carrie Antlfinger - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Nov 11, 2009 7:48:26 EST

MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee Army reservist's military identification earned him some street cred Tuesday, when he says four men who mugged him at gunpoint returned his belongings and thanked him for his service after finding the ID.

The 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student said he was walking home from work at about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday when he was pulled into an alley and told to lay face down and with a gun to his neck. Four men took his wallet, $16, keys, his cell phone and even a PowerBar wrapper from his pants pockets, he said.

But the hostile tone quickly changed when one of the robbers, whom the reservist presumed was the leader, saw an Army ID in the wallet. The robber told the others to return the items and they put most of his belongings on the ground next to him, including the wrapper, the reservist said.
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Police come 48 minutes after college student's battle for her life caught on 911 tape

Slain student called 911; no one came in time

Story Highlights
College student's battle for her life caught on 911 tape
Police did not respond to her call for help for 48 minutes
Brittany Zimmerman's fiance found her body
Police suspect she was attacked by a stranger and are eyeing vagrants
By Rupa Mikkilineni
Nancy Grace Producer


NEW YORK (CNN) -- Brittany Zimmerman, a 21-year-old college student who wanted to be a doctor, called 911 as she was being attacked by a stranger, police say.

But the police did not come for 48 minutes. By that time, Zimmerman was dead. Her fiance found her body.
Although the dispatcher claimed later to have heard nothing, the 911 tape captured screams, gasps and what sounds like a struggle, according to the court documents.
Spring was in the air when college student Zimmerman returned April 2 from classes at the University of Wisconsin to the off-campus apartment she shared with her fiance, Jordan Gonnering.
He was out when she arrived home. He discovered her body when he returned.
Zimmerman had been stabbed multiple times in her chest, near her heart. She'd also been beaten and strangled, according to warrants released recently.

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