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Old Mar 12, 2013, 06:40 AM
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PTSD isn't traumatic brain injury, and the research that "proves" that PTSD literately changes the brain is questionable at best, and it is not steadily considered by the scientific community to be the accurate model of looking at neurology in conjunction with PTSD.
PTSD is not physical brain injury in the usual sense, but... there must be some alteration to the brain -- assuming you believe that the mind is derived from the brain. So it could be considered to be a brain injury, I think. Everything one learns must mean a change in the brain, or else there would be no learning at all.
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