But they should be, because the Purple Heart is sacred. It’s just that there’s nothing inherently more sacred about being wounded in your backside than in your brain.

While it looks just as real as red or blue, purple is actually an optical illusion crafted by your brain. Look closely at a rainbow, and you’ll spot red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet ...

When we “see” a combination of blue and red wavelengths, the brain bends the visual spectrum into a circle that joins blue and red at the point of purple. You might be today years old when you ...

Zab Johnson, an expert, notes that purple is just a mere pigment of our imagination. Johnson believes that our brain is filling in gaps to make sense of something that in real life does not make ...

But I have wounds on the inside." The denials of Purple Hearts reflect a broader skepticism within the military over the severity of mild traumatic brain injury, often described as one of the ...