Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110529:11:51:00
Harvard, who happens to be an explosives expert. he's done two tours of duty in afghanistan. >> i've been about 16 years in the infantry in the army so i know a little bit about what happens when things blow up. >> reporter: back home, began to study how an explosion rattles the brain and can damage it permanently. >> what happens when the brain gets hit by a blast wave and it slams up against the inside of the skull? >> reporter: with colleagues at northeastern university, he's found ingenious ways to simulate the mechanics of the injury. >> you can imagine that when you drop a rock in a pudd...