Credits: Photo: Zach Skiles Caption: Uniquely positioned to study the effect of combat on the brain, Omar Rutledge served as a U.S. Army infantryman in the 1st Armored and 25th Infantry Divisions. He was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from March 2003 to July 2004. Credits: Image courtesy of Omar Rutledge Caption: A member of John Gabrieli’s lab, MIT PhD student Omar Rutledge uses MRI images, such as this one of a veteran with PTSD, to research the connection between trauma and the mind. Credits: Image courtesy of Omar Rutledge
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A car backfires in a parking lot. An army veteran, recently returned from a combat zone, might duck and cover. He knows that he is no longer in an active war zone, but he was trained to react before thinking, an ability that meant life o