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Has the Gulf War left a legacy on veterans’ brains?
In addition to the physical and psychological scars left by the First Gulf War (1990–1991), it would seem that the conflict has also had other serious effects on some of those who fought in it. It appears that the cerebral volume of some of these soldiers has quite simply… diminished.
Roberta White and her team in Boston studied 36 war veterans. They focused particularly on those soldiers – around half of them – who complained of a range of somewhat atypical problems, such as joint pain, fatigue, headaches, nausea and problems with concentration and memory…
The surprise came with the results of their brain scans. “The scans showed a decrease of about 5% in the volume of the two parts of the brain associated with learning and memory”, explains Dr White. “We don’t know why these changes have occurred. They could perhaps be linked to exposure to toxic substances during the war. That’s one theory”.
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