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ink found to ‘Gulf War Syndrome’
ASHINGTON (AP) — There could be a link
)etween some types of ailments suffered by Gulf
ity] j.jWf veterans and areas of their brains that have
IwlW « n injured by chemicals, a team of Texas re-
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Rodney C«r r ' ^°^ ert Haley, who headed a team of re-
:erns t j k , Marchers from the University of Texas South-
more ni W© stern Medical Center in Dallas, said the re-
) drinkin’W 0 * 1 P ro °^ t * iat a so-called “Gulf War
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bank on ;HH a * e y also said the symptoms ot Gulf War
Syndrome were due to damage in deep brain
[c | s ■. structures and were caused by chemical damage
! ec Mm combinations of low-level nerve gas, anti-
. ( nerve gas tablets, pesticides, DEET-containing
i insect repellents.
' P t flj'This helps explain why there is such a variety
, ; - ' of symptoms and why they vary somewhat from
person to person,” Haley said,
or the ban, findings were presented to the 86th Scien-
rcos advisorm. Assembly of the Radiological Society of
public r,;. America in Chicago on Monday,
ntns befotiMffey high-tech brain scans show that dam-
endatioi!: a g C i 0 the right side of a region of the brain called
R basal ganglia appears to cause memory lapses,
■paired sense of direction, and depression.
■ Damage to the left basal ganglia seemed to
^ cjjsuse general confusion, including difficulties
understanding instructions, reading, solving prob
lems and making decisions. Damage to the brain
stem accounts in part for vertigo attacks and loss
of balance, the researchers said.
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This helps explain why
there is such a variety of
symptoms and why they
vary somewhat from per
son to person/'
— Dr. Robert Haley
researcher
Haley said veterans may have more or differ
ent types of symptoms, depending on which re
gions of the brain were damaged by chemicals
during the Gulf War.
Thousands of veterans deployed to the Middle
East complain of an assortment of illnesses that
have been called Gulf War Syndrome, including
memory loss, anxiety, nausea, balance distur
bances, abnormalities in children born after their
return and chronic muscle and joint pain.
Years of controversy and study have yet to pro
vide a cause or treatment.
Dr. Gregory J. O’Shanick, national medical di
rector for the Alexandria, Va.-based Brain Injury
Association, said the correlation between area of
injury and type of symptom confirms research
showing that, in general, the right and left brain
hemispheres are responsible for different tasks.
“I don’t think we are going to get to the point
where we’ll say damage to this area is going to
cause this kind of symptom,” said O’Shanick, em
phasizing he had not seen the UT research.
Ross Perot, who helped pay for the UT team’s
research, testified before a Senate panel last month
and accused the Department of Defense of being
unwilling to retreat from early theories that the vet
erans’ illnesses were stress-related. Defense offi
cials denied the accusations.
Bernard Rotsker, head of the Defense Depart
ment’s Gulf War illness investigations, said during
the hearing that the department drew no conclu
sions from the UT team’s research.
The DOD was unable to provide an interview
with Rotsker or another official involved in Gulf
War illness investigations Monday.
Haley and his team currently have a request for
$16 million pending before a government panel to
expand the research and attempt to replicate the
findings.
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