mTBI, PTSD and Stress (Catch All)

[Beelzebubalicious]

This is out of my league to explain, but is the provocative nature of this study b/c soldier's don't want to admit that they can't handle the stress of combat...? Wondering what those who can comment would say?

-- Traumatic brain injury, described as the signature wound of the Iraq war, may be less to blame for soldiers' symptoms than doctors once thought, contends a provocative military study that suggests post-traumatic stress and depression often play a role.

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
The Associated Press
Wednesday, January 30, 2008; 8:54 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...013001058.html

[marct]

The study itself is available here, and worth looking at. I've just glanced through it, but my gut guess is that it relates more to an increase in the probability of neurological disruption leading to an increased probability of retaining the incident. Basically, it would magnify the effects in memory.