Newswise — This issue discusses topics ranging from posttraumatic stress disorder to cognitive performance that have a direct effect on Veterans and the rehabilitation care and support they may receive. Access this multi-topic issue at http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/2013/506/contents506.html. Topics include— • a guest editorial that looks at the range of opportunities available in rehabilitation research. The topic was initiated through a task group brought together by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development;
• discussion of the uncoordinated expansion of labels used to distinguish service animals;
• development of a mild traumatic brain injury-specific vision screening protocol that may help service members and Veterans with residual visual effects;
• a look at the relationship between cognitive performance, physical activity level, and physical fitness in women with chronic fatigue syndrome that found physical fitness, not physical activity level, is associated with cognitive performance.
• These and other topics of interest to Veterans, their caregivers and researchers who continue to seek treatments for these issues are also available.
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