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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Gulf War Illness."”.
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Neuropsychological predictors of functional disability in Gulf War Illness.
… social, and emotional functioning. Veterans with Gulf War Illness (GWI) may be particularly at risk for developing high functional disability due to their illness. However, few have examined potential factors associated with functional disability in GWI. Cognitive impairment is potentially one …
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Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Associations and Gulf War Illness (GWI)
Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a multi-symptom disease of unknown etiology that was observed in veterans after the first Gulf War (1990-1991). GWI involves multiple organ systems and has symptoms suggesting the involvement of the immune system. Many studies show Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) …
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Transverse Relaxation Times of Major Brain Metabolites in Gulf War Illness
Because many neurodegenerative diseases, like Gulf War Illness (GWI), are unidentifiable on conventional MRI or other imaging modalities in their early stages, diagnosis and treatment must wait until the disease has progressed to a more debilitating and obvious phase. The first aim of this thesis …
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PTSD and Immunological Correlations Of Attention and Working Memory in Gulf War Illness
Gulf War Illness (GWI) impacts 25 to 32 percent of those deployed in the 1991 Gulf War (White et al., 2016) and includes symptoms related to fatigue and mood/neurological disturbances. Therefore, it is difficult to ascertain the influence of trauma exposure and chemical exposure when investigating …
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Examining Neurological and Psychological Symptoms of Gulf War Illness Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2
BACKGROUND: Gulf War Illness (GWI) reflects a constellation of symptoms that affect a large number of veterans from the 1990-1991 Gulf War. Reported ailments include a variety of cognitive, musculoskeletal and psychological complaints. Whereas many symptoms were originally attributed to …
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Veterans of the 1st Persian Gulf War: A Study of Medically Unexplained Symptom Models
<p>In 1990-1991, shortly after the Persian Gulf War, a number of veterans began complaining about a wide range of symptoms, the most common of which were; fatigue, headache, sleep disturbance, low mood, and memory loss. These symptoms were similar to those experienced by individuals with Medically …
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Image Processing Considerations for High Resolution Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Human Brainstem
… artifacts from the DTI scans acquired for the Gulf War Illness study produces significant changes in FA for most subjects in the study. Removing signal void artifacts from the Gulf War Illness study data did not, however, alter the conclusions of group comparisons for the samples of Gulf War …
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Translational Biomarker Research for Militarily Relevant Populations in Neurocognitive Diseases
… 700,000 service veterans deployed to the Persian Gulf War in 1990-91 in the US. The UK mobilized over 46,000 military personnel to Iraq, 9,500 British troops to Afghanistan and 50,000 troops to the Gulf War. Soldiers are being exposed to traumatic events such as physical and psychological trauma, …