article by Dave Philipps on New York Times website
For years, the Navy has studied how much force a pilot can tolerate in one flight, and generally maintained that brain injuries happen only when something goes wrong. But it has paid little attention to the cumulative effects of the hundreds of flights that occur within a career, and evidence has been mounting across the military that repeated exposure to routine operations can damage brain cells even if the operations go right.
Panther researcher Diane Hoffman-Kim at Brown University in Providence, RI has been looking at how sustained compression may lead to brain injury
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