CURE Program, Connie Milstein & Many Others Helping Combat Soldiers
CURE, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, has created a program to help soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The most common wound for soldiers serving in these locations is traumatic brain injury (TBI), of which epilepsy is a common long-term consequence. CURE, where Connie Milstein is on the board, has a program called Prevention of Epilepsy after Traumatic Brain Injury.
With this program, they target funds to basic and applied research on epilepsy that is related to TBI. This research specifically targets the needs of combat, veteran and civilian populations to understand the causes of epilepsy that commonly follows TBI.