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War at a desk job, and I had an uncle who fought in the Vietnam War, but was never the same after.
Currently, I’m on the board of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, which works with many aspects of the military. I’m also a Community Leader for the Society for Neuroscience, where a monthly blog allows 40,000 scientists to read about how new discoveries in retinal functions can be applied to eye care. As citizens of this country, it is our job to protect our Soldiers in any way we can. They are so important to every one of us in many ways. Try and imagine what our lives would be like without Soldiers. A simple, “Thank you for your service” is not enough to acknowledge their personal sacrifices. Using modern discoveries about the retina, neuromodulation, and neuro- optometric rehabilitation, neuro-optometry may be able to help many military members or Veterans who gave so much of themselves for us during their service to regain control of their mental abilities, resolve the adverse effects of brain injury or anxiety/depression due to PTSD, and live a normal life again with their families. They protect us, and we are developing new ways to protect them in return.
PTSD involves a host of neurological, chemical, and muscular reactions. The capabilities of modern optometric care are still growing rapidly. Brain function is affected by trauma from blast injuries that is different from whiplash or injuries with a blunt object. Most of those involve retinal dysfunction.
Mind-Eye examinations have been able to affect the lives of people who suffer from PTSD in many ways by calming the nervous system and muting the peripheral reactions from glimpsing or hearing something. People feel more like themselves.
The Retina’s Role in PTSD Sensory Overload
Research has demonstrated the retina as being a piece of brain tissue that is part of our body’s central nervous system. It not only sends the brain environmental signals obtained
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