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Kudos to Adm. Michael Mullen

Mullen hired several other experts to join Macedonia, asking them to monitor and improve the treatment of brain injury across the entire military. They called it the “Gray Team”

this bit to link the tau mention

Path Is Found for the Spread of Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease [ http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/alzheimers-disease/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier ] seems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell, two new studies in mice have found. But instead of viruses or bacteria, what is being spread is a distorted protein known as tau.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=71722613

.. a couple more excerpts ..

The hallmark of C.T.E. is an abnormal protein called tau, which builds up, usually over years, throughout the cerebral cortex but especially in the temporal lobes, visible across the stained tissue like brown mold. What they found in these traumatic-brain-injury cases was totally different: a dustlike scarring, often at the border between gray matter (where synapses reside) and the white matter that interconnects it.

[...]

Perhaps you’re broke and paralyzed

Perhaps your memory goes

But it’s only just called shell shock

For you’ve nothing there that shows.

[...]

.. this one really surprised ..

Medics soon noticed an oddity of blast: It reflects off hard surfaces and multiplies, so that people who appear to
be protected inside an enclosed space like a Humvee often suffer much worse brain injuries than those outside.

.. couldn't help but wonder if there has been any consideration of coating the inside of a Humvee with a soft padding material .. silly suggestion, i guess ..

your link .. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/what-if-ptsd-is-more-physical-than-psychological.html?WT.mc_id=D-NYT-MKTG-MOD-51993-6-14-HD&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_c=

Very interesting, thank you very much .. :)