Directed Energy Weapons Cause Brain Wounds

DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS: A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a type of weapon that uses highly focused energy to damage or incapacitate its target, rather than relying on solid projectiles like bullets or missiles. These weapons can utilize various forms of energy, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams.

April 23, 2025
Arlington, VA

Catherine Herridge continues to investigate Havana Syndrome, Directed Energy Weapons, and US Government misfeasance and malfeasance regarding victims of attacks. In this recently released report, her interviews reveal a culture and practices that hinder both proper diagnoses, treatments, and truth.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard weighed in on the issue at her confirmation: “American intelligence professionals around the globe face constant targeting from adversaries. Ensuring their health and safety is a top priority, and I am committed to investigating the threats they face, including potential causes of AHIs. . . . the mistreatment and dismissal of those who have been impacted by AHIs [is unacceptable]. I am committed to initiating a new investigation into Anomalous Health Incidents and making the findings public.”

James Giordano, a top US Neuroscientist & Military Advisor interviewed made DEWs sound “credible, crippling, and complex.” What is clear to victims, if not to the US Government, is that real physical damage is done to multiple body systems during an attack, with long-term consequences that can lead to TBI, Parkinson’s, PTSD, and multiple symptoms that can manifest immediately or over the long-term.

For those fighting for decades to accurately diagnose their injuries, and get the best treatments available for the brain wounds caused by DEWs, the responses by most of their Agencies is familiar: deny, delay, deceive, drugs, depression, and even death. In this scenario, they are following the path of the 877,450 Veterans suffering TBI/PTSD since 9/11.

Veterans denied even respect and compassion for their “invisible wounds” can teach the AHI/Havana Syndrome victims all about the inadequacies of current “standards of care” at Intrepid Spirit Centers and other facilities.

Compare, for example, the Centers of Excellence that AHI victims have been referred to: Johns Hopkins; the National Intrepid Center of Excellence and its offshoot Intrepid Spirit Centers; Universities in Florida, Pennsylvania, and California; and rehabilitation and specialty centers across the country. You will search in vain for any on-label or off-label treatment that is approved by the FDA for brain wounds. None. That doesn’t prevent those institutions from prescribing a host of interventions, with frequent use of drugs that warn of suicide ideation, and a grab-bag of talk and physical therapy and time-limited insurance payments.

Familiar blame-shifting reports like that issued by the NIH perpetuate the myth that MRIs are reliable in spotting complex brain wounds. Further, the neuropsychologist and deputy director of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, reinforces the cultural and systemic bias against accurate diagnoses of the nature of brain wounds. His well-known disrespect of victims over the past few years is legendary for those who seek to achieve recognition of their Workers Compensation claims for brain wounds. His observations are typical across the brain wound diagnosing industry: it is the Patients’ FAULT that they’re sick.

According to this psychologist, “The post-traumatic stress and mood symptoms reported are not surprising given the ongoing concerns of many of the participants. . . . Often these individuals have had significant disruption to their lives and continue to have concerns about their health and their future. This level of stress can have significant negative impacts on the recovery process.”

In other words, just like for too many Veterans who are misdiagnosed for brain trauma, the “sickness” is psychosomatic, all in their head, a mental health problem. Luckily, non-government diagnosticians without institutional bias accurately diagnose brain wounds. And various other specialists find ear and eye and other system damage that isn’t adequately addressed at Walter Reed.

Yet proven alternative therapies like Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) that has a decade of peer-reviewed science attesting to its safety and effectiveness fighting brain wounds, is not even mentioned to victims.

A small cohort of AHI victims has now been through 40 treatments of HBOT, thanks to the patriotism and charity of HBOT clinics and providers. A recent evaluation of a half dozen successes using qEEG testing “demonstrated a pattern of selective neurophysiological recovery following HBOT. Modest but reliable changes in z-scores across the cognitive-affective system . . . . are consistent with improvements in attention regulation, planning, and memory integration [along with] improved cortical activation and regulatory capacity.” As important, the interventions with HBOT “indicate . . . . that the intervention was effective in addressing subtle brain network imbalances. These gains provide an important neural foundation for enhanced cognitive performance and subjective symptom relief.”

For the treated victims, the ability to sleep, work, focus, think, remember, and live a more normal life are not negligible.

Directed Energy Weapons have been around a long time. Use against humans has apparently resulted in DEWs for crowd control. The same weapons can disable drones or destroy satellites or ICBMs, depending on the sophistication, size, and power source. The medical community seems willing to accept that DEWs might be implicated in AHI victims’ injuries, but the waffling and hand-waving about WHO could be on the attack worldwide continues to allow decision-makers to avoid accepting responsibility and accelerating the processes that will provide adequate compensation and treatments to victims.

Herridge’s reporting points to several avenues of inquiry: How big and widespread is the problem? Why are victims denied accurate diagnoses and treatments to heal brain wounds and other maladies? Why is the US Government so late to the understanding that AHI/Havana Syndrome victims are a precursor to a national security challenge: how to cope with DEWs on the battlefield and with victims of brain wounding? When is the medical community going to allow alternative therapies for the polytrauma caused by DEWs?

We have learned with BLAST and TBI/PTSD injuries suffered in combat, or in head trauma broadly, that delay is not good medicine. As the AHI victims can attest, neglect for a decade at the medical and bureaucratic levels does not lead to healthy outcomes nor confidence and retention across our intelligence community.

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The TreatNOW Mission is ending service member suicides. Along the way, we have learned that we can end suicidal ideation, help end symptoms of PTSD, get patients off most of their drugs, and heal brain wounds to end the effects of Concussion, BLAST injury, mild TBI Persistent Post Concussive Syndrome, and polytrauma from AHI and Burn Pits. No Veteran or civilian has ever been killed while undergoing HBOT treatment for TBI/PTSD.

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