Their study, published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology, is unique in that it enlisted an
extraordinary pool of volunteer
participants: 182 Vietnam veterans with highly localized brain damage from penetrating head injuries.The
research team included scientists from the University of Illinois, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Medical Numerics, in Germantown, Md.; George Mason University; the University of Delaware; and Kessler Foundation, in West Orange, N.J.