Pentagon Turns to Brain Implants to Repair Damaged Minds

An estimated 10 to 20 percent of troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs, which afflict 1.7 million Americans each year. Now the Pentagon’s rolling out a revolutionary initiative to treat the condition: brain implants that one researcher likens to “replacement parts” for damaged gray matter. “When […] 

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The Next Frontier for Warfighters Might Be Implants in Their Brains. Is the Pentagon Ready for the Consequences?

A physicist with the Magnetoencephalography Laboratory at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., attaches sensors to a subject's head March 21, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.) 

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Pentagon plan aims to treat, prevent TBIs for the long haul

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