Posted by Jeff-Jay Sternickle on Tuesday, January 26, 2016

In a special issue of the journal Cortex that coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Gulf War, a Boston University School of Public Health researcher and colleagues from a dozen other institutions comprehensively review studies on Gulf War Illness (GWI). They conclude that exposure to pesticides and ingestion of pyridostigmine bromide (PB) - prophylactic pills intended to protect troops against the effects of possible nerve gas—are "causally associated with GWI and the neurological dysfunction in Gulf War veterans."