PTSD
Monday, September 10, 2007
Docs struggle with mysteries of TBI
The war in Iraq is not over, but one legacy is already here in this city and others across America: an epidemic of brain-damaged soldiers. Thousands of troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or TBI. These blast-caused head injuries are so different from the ones doctors are used to seeing from falls and car crashes that treating them is as much faith as it is science.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
This Is Your Brain On 9/11
If you witnessed the attacks on 9/11 up close and then continually had bad dreams, felt jumpy, kept thinking about what you saw, and avoided the site even several years later, chances are that parts of your brain were altered in subtle ways. According to scientists, such lingering symptoms and physical changes reflect an undiagnosed and long-term toll on mental health resulting from the attacks.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Children who survive urban warfare suffer from PTSD, too
Countless children in San Francisco’s toughest neighborhoods experience murder, violence and trauma - an often unavoidable consequence of living in an urban war zone. The violence, layers of it overlapping year after year, can eventually take up residence in the children’s minds. Like combat veterans, they develop post-traumatic stress disorder - the soldier’s sickness. As many as one-third of children living in our country’s violent urban neighborhoods have PTSD, according to recent research and the country’s top child trauma experts - nearly twice the rate reported for troops returning from war zones in Iraq.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Katrina victims struggle mentally
Many Gulf Coast residents still feel the wallop of Hurricane Katrina nearly two years later. Mental illness is double the pre-storm levels, rising numbers suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and there is a surge in adults who say they’re thinking of suicide.
One-fifth of female airmen in combat get PTSD
About 20 percent of Air Force women who have deployed since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 are experiencing at least one major symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a survey of 1,114 service women conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan.
“Transition unit” at Fort Carson to help GIs heal
Fort Carson has a new “warrior transition unit,” where wounded soldiers are to report with one mission: heal. By Jan. 1, the Army plans to have “warrior transition units” in place at installations throughout the service. The goal is to better manage care for the nation’s wounded soldiers with hopes of restoring their health, whether they stay in the Army or not.
Mental Wounds Need Same Attention as Physical Ones
Psychological wounds are just as devastating to servicemembers and families as physical wounds, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said after meeting with servicemembers and veterans undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder at Tripler Army Medical Center here yesterday.
A new focus on war’s mental wounds
A surge of new money is in the pipeline to help Department of Veterans Affairs and Army hospitals and clinics treat the mental wounds of men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. But the increased funding comes amid a surge in soldiers and veterans who may need help. About 38 percent of new veterans seeking VA care in April reported possible mental-health problems.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
PTSD in Today’s War Veterans: The Road to Recovery
The times—and both Pentagon and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) policies—may be changing. Military doctors and combat medics are better educated about the early triggers for PTSD. Combat stress teams—usually medics with additional training in counseling and psychological assessment—now serve on the ground with combat units. A unique pilot program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center has utilized the skills of social workers in pioneering “whole person” post-deployment care for service members struggling with PTSD and other impacts of war.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Emotional recall is in your genes
Your ability to recall emotional events – such as meeting the love of your life, or the trauma of a painful car crash – is governed by a common variation in a single gene, according to a new study. We recall emotionally charged events far more than mundane ones because they tend to be advantageous in evolutionary terms. Remembering favourable or dangerous events helps our survival far more than recalling the daily commute to work, for example.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Army to Train Soldiers About Brain Injuries, Other Mental Health Concerns
The Army plans to begin a program today to educate every soldier about traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. The rare effort to break the perceived stigma within the military on mental health problems comes as increasingly more troops return from battle with serious but undiagnosed conditions.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Biofeedback Reinvented - New Discoveries Show that the Heart Pulses Messages that Reveal Feelings
HeartMath essentially reinvented biofeedback in 1999 when they introduced the first affordable consumer stress-reduction product using their patented heart rhythm feedback. Their focus on heart rhythm feedback provided a refreshing departure from conventional biofeedback practices, and has since been adopted by more than ten thousand health professionals worldwide as an effective and invaluable tool for patients suffering from stress-related issues. Internationally respected for their research-based stress solutions, HeartMath peer-reviewed studies have demonstrated the critical link between emotions, heart function, and cognitive performance.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
9/11 Dreams Study Suggests TV Coverage Boosted Stress
A study of Americans’ dreams in the weeks before and after Sept. 11, 2001, suggests that TV coverage of the terror attacks actually increased viewers’ stress levels. The finding probably applies to most major traumatic news stories, including this week’s massacre of students and faculty at Virginia Tech, one expert said. Researchers found that each additional hour of daily 9/11-linked TV viewing raised an individual’s stress level by 6 percent, as reflected in dreams laden with grim images from that day’s events. But there was also some good news from the study—stress levels began to decline the more people talked over the tragedy with family members and friends.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Study: Grieving Sept. 11 children suffer high stress, anxiety
Children who lost a parent on Sept. 11 are 10 times as likely to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder as other children, according to a study released Monday that found a majority have had psychological problems for years after the attacks.