From 1999 to 2010, the number of Veterans of the United States military receiving compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for serviceconnected PTSD increased 222% to 386,882. This dramatic and rapid increase in the rate of diagnosed service-connected PTSD has intensified longstanding concerns that the VA’s disability policies, procedures, and treatment programs promote compens...

From the Departments of Internal Medicine and Medical Education, University of Michigan Medical School and the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System — both in Ann Arbor (D.T.S.); and the Office of the Dean, Student Affairs, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center — both in San Francisco (M.P.). Address reprint requ...

PTEN encodes a major tumor-suppressor protein that is a dual-specificity phosphatase. Inactivation of PTEN has been shown to be involved in heritable and sporadic cancers. Mutation or deletion of PTEN, historically the most commonly identified mechanisms of inactivation of tumor suppressors, is found only in the minority of sporadic non-cultured primary cancers, which indicates that there might...

background and aim: this study investigated whether objective temporal processing paradigms including voice-onset-time, speech-in-noise, and amplitude modulated-broad-band noise (am-bbn) are sensitive to disrupted temporal processing in elderly listeners with normal hearing (age-related-temporal processing deficit). methods: we evaluated 15 adults aged 64–80 years using behavioural measures of ...

* Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48105 † Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109 ‡ Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, Los Angeles , California, 90073 | Division of General Internal Medicine, David Geffen School of M...