The Impact Of Blasts On The Brain




KERA's Think show

Summary: <p><span style="color: #22242f; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.1599998474121px;">[2015-01-22 12:00:00] </span>Thousands of U.S. combat personnel have suffered brain trauma caused by blast force. This hour, we’ll talk about how that physical and psychological damage affects veterans with <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/caroline_alexander/index.html?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank">Caroline Alexander</a>, whose story <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/healing-soldiers/" target="_blank">“The Invisible War on the Brain”</a> appears in the February issue of <em>National Geographic</em> magazine.</p><p> </p>