[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VETERANS: "Researchers Find Biological Evidence of Gulf War Illnesses"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Researchers Find Biological Evidence of Gulf War Illnesses

By JAMES DAO
New York Times
June 14, 2013

In the two decades since the 1991 Persian Gulf war, medical  
researchers have struggled to explain a mysterious amalgam of  
problems in thousands of gulf war veterans, including joint pain,  
physical malaise and gastrointestinal disorders. In some medical  
circles, the symptoms were thought to be psychological, the result of  
combat stress.

But recent research is bolstering the view that the symptoms, known  
collectively as gulf war illness, are fundamentally biological in  
nature. In the latest example, researchers at Georgetown University  
say they have found neurological damage in gulf war veterans  
reporting symptoms of the disease.

Using magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of gulf war  
veterans before and after exercise, the researchers discovered  
evidence of damage in parts of their brains associated with heart  
rate and pain. Such damage was not evident in the control group,  
which included nonveterans and healthy veterans.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/us/researchers-find-biological- 
evidence-of-gulf-war-illnesses.html

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