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in conjunction with the department of health and human services that is called consumer directed home and community based veterans services. and it was modeled after a program that was done in a number of states in which individuals were given an individual budget and then allowed to decide how to use that money to meet their specific needs. and so the states have gotten involved, and its a slow process, but its taking off, in getting involved in understanding that the returning servic...

scientific foundation is going to help us to come up with better helmets, better prevention strategies and better therapies and i hope better recovery. >> you mention the short-term and long-term effects of brain injury in children. can you have long-term effects without noticing any short-term injury? >> i think that you usually will see something early on but theres some subtle differences. children are continuing to develop as we go forward. i often talk about children as an unfinis...

itself. as i mentioned earlier, in the general medical community and in the payer community, there is not good understanding of the neuro physical logic of plasticity as a recovery mechanism for brain injury. it used to be thought what you see at six months is what you get. today we understand what we do in the environment by creating appropriately structured demand, reprograms existing cells to take over function, or induces growth in the brain for new development of -- or excuse me, ...