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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2007 Dec 23;11(2):232–237. doi: 10.1038/nn2032

Table 1.

Military service data.

Group Age in Vietnam Duration
(months)
% Drafted AFQT
(%ile)
AFQT Change Combat Exposure Combat Exposure
(% high)
Amygdala 20.4
(2.2)
6.1
(3.1)
50 65.6
(28.1)
−15.2
(23.9)
3.9
(1.6)
64
vmPFC 20.3
(3.1)
5.8
(3.5)
36 55.0
(22.6)
−9.7
(17.9)
3.2
(0.8)
43
Non-vmPFC/non-amygdala 20.6
(2.9)
5.6
(3.8)
31 61.3
(25.9)
−8.2
(19.0)
3.3
(1.1)
58
No brain damage 20.6
(3.1)
>10 52 65.4
(22.9)
3.9
(14.5)
2.6
(1.2)
33

"Age in Vietnam" is the age when arrived in Vietnam; "Duration" is the period between arrival in Vietnam and injury (in the case of the brain-injured) or end of service in Vietnam (in the case of the non brain-injured); "% Drafted" is the percentage of individuals drafted into military service; AFQT (Armed Forces Qualifying Test) is a measure of basic intellectual function; "AFQT (%ile)" is the AFQT percentile at the time of enlistment; "AFQT Change" is the difference between AFQT score at the time of enlistment and the Phase 3 evaluation; "Combat Exposure" is the frequency of exposure to enemy contact: 0=no contact (support unit); 1=occasional mortar attack (support unit); 2=intermittent enemy contact (support unit); 3=intermittent enemy contact (combat unit); 4=constant enemy contact (combat unit). "Combat Exposure (% high)" is the percentage of individuals who experienced constant enemy contact in a combat unit. For "Age in Vietnam," "Duration," "AFQT (%ile)," "AFQT change," and "Combat Exposure" mean values are given with standard deviations in parentheses.