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Even though the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan haven?t definitively ended, the aftereffects are already being felt as thousands of soldiers return home with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) caused by improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. The U.S. Department of Defense reports that TBIs, described as ?the signature injury? of those wars, have afflicted some 320,000 […]