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King: Push is on to treat our brains, not their problems
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More and more of our soldiers are coming back from war with traumatic injuries of one sort or another. High on the list are brain injuries, but depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders are common among service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Now researchers say they are as little as five years away from healing these injuries by implanting electronic devices in the damaged area of the brain.