A multi-institutional research team recently reported that veterans with both PTSD and unmet social needs appear to have higher rates of dementia or cognitive impairment years later. The study involved 3,817,970 veterans—and, therefore, millions of data points—so the team relied on support from researchers in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst, who helped process the large amounts of data needed for the study.