Marines Use Brain Scans to Spot PTSD Triggers Before and During War

November 23rd, 2009

In other words, the military is using the war as a giant MK screening lab.

Via: Wired:

Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.

Smiling kids embracing a soldier. A dog sniffing blood oozing from a corpse. Movie star Cameron Diaz posing sideways in a midriff top. Troops cowering for safety during an ambush. (See pictures of movie costumes.)

A doctor tracked his stress levels and counted the number of times he blinked. Electrode wires dangled from his left eye and right pinky finger.

Sheets is part of a military experiment to try to predict who’s most at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder. Understanding underlying triggers might help reduce the burden of those who return psychologically wounded — if they can get early help.

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2 Responses to “Marines Use Brain Scans to Spot PTSD Triggers Before and During War”

  1. realitydesign says:
    November 23, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    The absurdity in this is so overwhelming I don’t know where to start.

    I just lost a childhood friend who apparently (we had lost touch about a decade ago) returned from his second tour of duty in Iraq and ended up overdosing on pain killers he was taking to attempt to numb himself from his escalating PTSD symptoms.

    I’m sorry but if things on this planet are going to change everyone is going to have to wake up and boycott the military- this starts grassroots. What is it that is so hard to understand, why do legions of our children sign up for this carnage and not see the utter insanity in this Wired article?

    Who would want to be a part of this evil charade- going off to kill people and destroy lives- WHY, for WHO?

    And meanwhile the army is ‘researching’ how best to treat PTSD victims at home…like they will EVER even get treatment when they get back.

    Man, I’m at a loss here.

    Boycott the armed forces.

  2. pookie says:
    November 23, 2009 at 8:28 pm

    realitydesign asks, “why do legions of our children sign up for this carnage”

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/few-good-kids

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/war-games-armys-teen-arsenal

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2002/11/no-child-unrecruited

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/08/fast-times-recruitment-high

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