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Old 09-20-2007, 03:41 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- Before they leave for Iraq, thousands of troops with the 101st Airborne Division line up at laptop computers to take a test: basic math, matching numbers and symbols, and identifying patterns. They press a button quickly to measure response time.


It's all part of a fledgling Army program that records how soldiers' brains work when healthy, giving doctors baseline data to -- help diagnose and treat them if they come back with a traumatic brain injury -- the signature injury of the Iraq war.


"This allows the Army to be much more proactive," said Lt. Col. Mark McGrail, division surgeon for the 101st. "We don't want to wait until the soldier is getting out of the Army to say, 'But I've had these symptoms.'"

Army Conducts Brain Tests on Soldiers - NewsMax - America's News Page (http://www.newsmax.com/us/army_brain.../19/34042.html - broken link)

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Old 07-24-2013, 11:51 AM
 
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Hopefully, these tests will be fruitful.
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Old 07-24-2013, 01:38 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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The Air Force is doing this as well.
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Old 07-24-2013, 02:27 PM
 
Location: New Mexico U.S.A.
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Hopefully, these tests will be fruitful.
Well, that post and article was from over five years ago (2007)... I wonder what developed.
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Old 08-01-2013, 05:56 AM
 
Location: Northern Virginia
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I took this test in 2008, and two deployments and five years later I haven't seen another or heard about anything related to this. Frankly I'd forgotten about it til I saw this thread.

So I suppose they've either scaled it back or eliminated it altogether. Although I guess it's possible they'd only have someone test against their baseline if they've received a head injury.
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