http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/military\/2010-06-14-braintest_N.htm<\/a><\/p>\r\nThe paper reported that more than 562,000 tests taken by soldiers before they were shippd out to fight weren’t readminstered when they came home by military health officials.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
According to one of the Congressmen who helped write the 2008 order on the testing, Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J.,\u00a0now thousands of solidiers who may have brain damage\u00a0will go undetected. Pascrell is co-chariman of the bi-partisan Congressional Brain Injury Task Force.<\/p>\r\n
The Pentagon contends\u00a0that the test, called the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics, or ANAM,\u00a0used to check the soldiers isn’t accurate.\u00a0Lt. General Eric Schoonmaker, the Army surgeon general, told USA Today that the test is “no better than a coin flip.”<\/p>\r\n
\u00a0Another officer, Lt. Col. Michael Russell, chief of the army’s ANAM program,\u00a0claimed the test comes out with too many false-positive results, and that such results could occur even by someone taking a medication such as Benadryl.<\/p>\r\n
But defenders of the test said that it is just designed to indicate if a soldier’s cognitive processes have worsened, meaning that additional testing is necessary.\u00a0In other words, the ANAM test is a good screening tool.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Neuropsychologist Tresa Roebuck-Spencer, who\u00a0is with the University of Oklahoma, told USA Today that when the post-combat test is compared to the first one, the false-positive test results drop out. The university\u00a0developed and distributes the ANAM test for the army.<\/p>\r\n
USA Today reported that 575,000 pre-deplolyment tests were collected at a price of about $30 each. But only 12,000 to 13,000 have been used for comparisons.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Traditionally the military has expected soldiers to report their own head injuries.\u00a0Somewhere in the range of\u00a05 percent to 15 percent continue to have problems from their brain trauma, according to USA Today.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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