Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in U.S. Soldiers Returning from Iraq
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From the Division of Psychiatry and Neu roscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Silver Spring, MD (C.W.H., D.M., J.L.T., A.L.C., C.A.C.); and the Deployment Health Clinical Center and Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Washington, DC (C.C.E.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Hoge at the Division of Psychiatry and Neuro science, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910, or at charles.hoge@ us.army.mil.
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Mild traumatic brain injury in U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq.
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