The July 2013 issue of Psychiatric Annals, guest edited by Col Mark D. Packer, USAF, MC, MD, and Victoria Tepe, PhD, has focused on the important issue of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-concussion syndrome (PCS). This issue is brought to the fore by the huge increase in numbers of military individuals affected by blasts, and other physical trauma in Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as a growing stream of information about the deleterious effects of repeated brain injury involving a much smaller, but highly visible group of professional football players in the National Football League (NFL).
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