War Syndromes and Their Evaluation: From the U.S. Civil War to the Persian Gulf War

This article supplies information for people to have a better understanding of why the veterans of the Persian Gulf War might have had illnesses post-war. There have been many syndromes that have been associated with these veterans with symptoms including fatigue, headaches, forgetfulness, etc... The illnesses included serious psychiatric conditions dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and acute combat stress reaction. This article mentions how there was not one specific disease that the veterans had, but that a good number of them were mentally damaged after experiencing the war. The research has many limiations, but "until we can better understand what constitutes health and illness in all adult populations, we risk repeated occurrences of unexplained symptoms among veterans after each war".