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Article: Project targets soldiers' health War's effect on brain focus of Guard study
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- November 16, 2007
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A first-in-the nation project to document the neurological
function of all members of the Maine National Guard, both before
their deployment and upon their return, is among projects funded by
the Maine Health Access Foundation in its current round of grants.
In addition to Guard members and their families, migrant workers
and people with mental illness or addiction will be beneficiaries of
more than $5.2 million in MeHAF grants announced this week, much of
it targeted at making health care services more responsive to the
circumstances of individual patients.
Beth Pearson, senior research associate at Dartmouth Medical
School in New Hampshire and the principal investigator on the
National ...