A new program released through a government report asks the military to do better brain scans on their veterans. The new recruits will also be tested for cognitive skills, but the health panel wants to see whether the combat veterans responded well to the traumatic brain injury they had suffered after returning from the Iraq war.

The advocates of the veterans have been asking for such a calling for years. They believe that it’s very important to be more careful with brain injuries and that the wounds inside the head are the most dangerous ones, as they aren’t visible with the naked eye or CT scans.

Doctors also think that there is a big difference between the explosives which happened in Iraq, and have accounted for most of the head injuries to the troops sent there, and the brain injuries caused by a car accident. Some of the doctors believe that the difference stands in the symptoms.

Most veterans have usually complained about symptoms such as dizziness or sleeplessness. These ones are exactly the symptoms which can resemble the post-traumatic stress disorders linked to the explosives that could have caused the brain injuries.

The government report was released by the Institute of Medicine on Thursday and recommends that the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs should watch closer to the long effects of what can be called an inner brain injury. These types of wounds are very common among military personnel, as nearly 5,500 of them suffered from them.

Brig. Gen. Loree K. Sutton, director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, stated that no decision has been taken yet, but that the Department of Defense has started taking care of the head injuries already.