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Treatments being used to treat psychological lapses from traumatic brain injury appear helpful but lack solid scientific evidence, researchers have said.

A report, conducted by the Institute of Medicine at the request of the Defense Department, said that overall evidence was too flimsy to support any guidelines for which treatment could help which patients.

However, it did note that some methods had more support than others, such as the use of special daily diaries to improve memory.

Dr Jordan Grafman of the Kessler Foundation Research Center, who was not on the committee, told the New York Times: "I think the panel had a slight bias toward wanting these therapies to work, but at the same time it did not overstate the evidence."

In an effort to improve detection of brain injury among troops, the US military is employing improved screening methods, reports the Associated Press.

The military believes that the increased number of brain injuries among US troops is due to better screening rather than more injuries.

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