Gulf War Illness newest study by Dr Haley is hot off the press.
More scientific proof of damage done to gulf war veterans. The question is where are the new tests, new blood tests and diagnostic tests, that will show the damage and lead to the veterans getting compensation and diagnosis and treatment. It has been 20 years! We need help and an urgency now! Give the gulf war veterans something we can use now!
Impaired response inhibition in ill Gulf War veterans
Received 30 April 2010; received in revised form 19 July 2010; accepted 26 July 2010. published online 18 August 2010.
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Abstract
Poor performance on tasks requiring response inhibition has been observed among chronically ill veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Semantic difficulties have also been reported. We collected event-related potential (ERP) and behavioral data from 25 Gulf War veterans who complained of cognitive difficulties and from 23 matched controls, who were deployed but not symptomatic, while they performed a GO–NOGO task that required both a semantic decision and inhibitory processing. A significantly greater false-alarm rate among the ill veterans was accompanied in the ERP data by significantly reduced amplitude in the NOGO P3, consistent with previous ERP studies of other patient groups that have shown poor inhibitory response performance. This supports the contention that the ill veterans’ deficit lies more in inhibiting than in detecting task-related differences in the stimuli.
Keywords: Gulf War Illness, ERP, GO–NOGO, N2–P3, Semantic, Basal ganglia, Frontal lobe
a School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Center for BrainHealth, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States
b Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
c Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
d Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
Corresponding author. Center for BrainHealth, 2200 W. Mockingbird Ln., Dallas, TX 75235, United States. Tel.: +1 214 905 3007; fax: +1 214 905 3026.
PII: S0022-510X(10)00344-8
doi:10.1016/j.jns.2010.07.021
Published by Elsevier Inc.
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