In 2010, more US soldiers died from suicide than at enemy lines. There's a
new technology that uses brain imaging to help doctors match soldiers
suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and Traumatic brain
injures with proper treatment. George Carpenter CEO, CNS RESPONSE a
neuroscientist company in California, says about 1 million soldiers out of
the 2.5 million soldiers that were in Afghanistan or Iraq will develop
depression or PTSD or had a blast injury. Also the spouses of the deployed
soldiers also have PTSD and are rising. 90% of soldier and family suicides
are due to incorrect treatment for there disorders. 40% of the time the
people get the right medication, but 60% of the time they don't.
The answer to this type of treatment needed isn't as easy as a blood test,
X-rays, or a bone scans. For psychiatry of the brain there really isn't a
test to tell which medication is needed and what medication one would
respond to. The founders of the CNS RESPONSE Company, a neuroscientist
company in California, were two doctors. One of them is a personal
physiatrist and the other one is a quantitative physiatrist. They are
different thinkewrs.
What the founders question is "What should we be measuring?" The
quantitative physiatrist says "What's a cheap thing to measure?" EEG
monitors brain activity. They ran EEG tests for about 20 years and they got
the correlations that they use as there data base. They have over 35,000 of
these correlations. What CNS Response Co. can do is match the people on
anti depressants. They can tell which ones did good on the old anti
depressants and which ones did good on the new ones. So just getting the
doctors in the ballpark they do 2-3 times better than the rest of them. CNS
has a new test that will be used on 2,000 soldiers. The first 1,000 those
soldiers will use the company's treatment on and the other 1,000 soldiers
they will treat traditionally.
I think what CNS is doing is goods work and they are going to help a lot of
people. You can check out CNSRESPONSE.com to get more info about it. I think
it is so amazing how doctors can always find results to everything.
They are finding cures depression and head trauma problems, and what is
next? They might develop the cure to cancer, next. To me I can't stop
thinking how amazing these doctors are and how good they are at solving the
problems and finding solutions.
I can't wait to hear the outcomes of their newest study on the 2,000
soldiers and to see the company succeed.
