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Veterans with Gulf War Illness have widespread brain inflammation, new study shows

SOURCE:  https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/02/17/veterans-with-gulf-war-syndrome-have-widespread-brain-inflammation-new-study-shows/

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By ALEXI COHAN | alexi.cohan@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald

PUBLISHED: February 17, 2020 at 7:40 p.m. | UPDATED: February 17, 2020 at 8:14 p.m.

Veterans with Gulf War Syndrome have 

widespread brain inflammation, new study

shows

BOSTON, MA. – SEPTEMBER 20: Mass. General Hospital , September 20, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald) 

By ALEXI COHAN | alexi.cohan@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald

PUBLISHED: February 17, 2020 at 7:40 p.m. | UPDATED: February 17, 2020 at 8:14 p.m.

Veterans who fought against Iraq in the Gulf War and now battle debilitating symptoms of what’s been called Gulf War Syndrome have widespread inflammation in the brain, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital confirmed for the first time.

“We are documenting objective neurochemical changes in the brains of these people which is a way to validate their complaints,”

Highlights of Recent Gulf War Illness Research Findings

Highlights of GWIRP 2019-20 Peer-Reviewed Published Findings

Updated February 12, 2020

New results from a GWIRP-funded brain-imaging study in Boston provide the first direct evidence of neuroinflammation in veterans with GWI.  Based on early GWIRP-funded study results, a focus on identifying and confirming or denying the presence of persistent neuroinflammation in GWI has been a key GWIRP goal.  These results provide the first objective evidence confirming the relevance of neuroinflammation in GWI and that treatments should indeed be targeted at countering this neuroinflammation.[1]

Another key area of GWIRP-funded research has been related to role of the gut-brain axis in GWI.  A GWIRP-funded study also from Boston and also just published assessed the relationships between GWI, GI symptoms, gut microbiome and inflammatory markers in GWV from the Boston Gulf War Illness Consortium (GWIC).  Results showed