Doctors treating the United States Embassy victims of suspected attacks in Cuba have discovered brain abnormalities as they search for clues to explain hearing, vision, balance and memory damage, The Associated Press has learned. White matter acts like information highways between brain cells. Acoustic waves don't alter white matterDoctors still don't know how victims ended up with the white matter changes, nor how exactly those changes might relate to their symptoms. "We never see white matter tract problems." Studies have found both concussions and white matter damage in Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who survived explosions yet had no other physical damage.

Source: CBC News December 06, 2017 21:11 UTC