Brain injury experts are cautioning against drawing conclusions from newly released and limited information about evidence of a brain injury in an Army…
Boston University researchers who analyzed a sample of Robert Card’s brain tissue said Wednesday they found evidence of traumatic brain injuryBrain injury experts are cautioning against drawing conclusions from newly released and limited information about evidence of a brain injury in.
“TBI is a very broad diagnosis, and it looks different in different people. Not everybody has the same symptoms. Not everybody has the same severity of symptoms,” Filippakis said. “There’s no way that you could, with certainty, link that to a particular action.” Such injuries can affect impulse control and emotional regulation, he said, and though he doesn’t know if those parts of his brain were affected, “it’s certainly hard to imagine that the level of brain changes that we’re seeing in some way did not contribute to his behavior.”
“If you’re already struggling with some kind of psychiatric condition or at risk for some kind of psychiatric problem, brain injuries might be something that can kind of push you over the edge and have that change really come front and center when it might have been sort of a minor underlying thing before,” he said.
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