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A type of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that occurs in soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq has been identified by scientists.

Brain injuries sustained from roadside bombs and homemade explosive devices are common among serving troops and are leading to a new set of symptoms.

Colonel Geoffrey Ling told a brain injury convention this year that TBIs being sustained from bomb blasts should be treated differently, according to USA Today.

"It may actually have some unique features to it, which makes it a very interesting new disease," he said.

Research carried out on American soldiers serving in combat zones found that one in ten suffer some form of TBI.

TBIs from blasts can be much more complicated than other forms of brain injury, according to the US Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center.

Concussion-related TBIs often go untreated because of an absence of outward injuries to the head and also the presence of other life-threatening problems.

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