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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Persian Gulf Syndrome"”.
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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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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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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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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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Effects of War Stressors and Life Events on Gulf War Veterans with CFS Symptoms
… occur, with the development of CFS symptoms in Gulf War veterans. From data collected from Gulf War Health Registry veterans, 113 met CFS criteria and 441 were controls. After hierarchical linear analysis, negative life stressors: wounded, traumatic war experience, frequent battle experiences, …