{"id":310906,"date":"2026-01-20T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-soldiers-believe-their-own-weapons-may-have-given-them-brain-damage\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:00:10","slug":"why-soldiers-believe-their-own-weapons-may-have-given-them-brain-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-soldiers-believe-their-own-weapons-may-have-given-them-brain-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Why soldiers believe their own weapons may have given them brain damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/sfmwpnshRmM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why soldiers believe their own weapons may have given them brain damage\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sfmwpnshRmM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>ITV News has been investigating the invisible wounds caused to the brains of soldiers by the waves of pressure which are released when they are exposed to explosions. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And how there may be a connection between blast-related traumatic brain injury and increased rates of suicide among UK service personnel.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>In this report our Science Correspondent Martin Stew explores whether blast waves could also be damaging the blood vessels inside the brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITV News has been investigating the invisible wounds caused to the brains of soldiers by the waves of pressure which are released when they are exposed to explosions. \u00a0 And how there may be a connection between blast-related traumatic brain injury and increased rates of suicide among UK service personnel.\u00a0 In this report our Science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":310907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[128827,130563,128917],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-310906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news","tag-been","tag-investigating","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why soldiers believe their own weapons may have given them brain damage | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why soldiers believe their own weapons may have given them brain damage for free, here on News ISC. 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