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Wearing a larger helmet could protect US troops against brain injury, research has shown.

A study from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California found that giving troops a bigger helmet with extra padding could reduce impact to the skull by 24 per cent, reports USA Today.

Brig Gen Peter Fuller, outgoing commander of the office that equips soldiers, told the publication that the results of the study are encouraging.

He continued that more research is necessary to confirm the results, but that a limited and experimental trial could possibly be done with a brigade of soldiers.

This follows news that US troops who experience brain injury in combat could be awarded the Purple Heart.

According to the Marine Corps Times, military authorities are considering recognising soldiers with mild traumatic brain injury or concussion with the same award typically given to those wounded or killed in war.

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