US Diplomats’ Brain Scans Show Differences, Adding to Cuba Mystery

US Diplomats’ Brain Scans Show Differences, Adding to Cuba Mystery
This image provided by the American Medical Association shows the amount of differences between brain scans of patients, in July 2019. American Medical Association via AP
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CHICAGO—Advanced brain scans found perplexing differences in U.S. diplomats who say they developed concussion-like symptoms after working in Cuba, a finding that only heightens the mystery of what may have happened to them, a new study says.

Extensive imaging tests showed the diplomats had less white matter than a comparison group of healthy people and other structural differences, researchers said.