9/11
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Sept. 11 Terrorism Continues to Impact Mental Health of Americans
Long after Sept. 11, 2001, Americans’ terrorism-related thoughts and fears are associated with increased depression, anxiety, hostility, posttraumatic stress and drinking, University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have found.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Researchers find Sept. 11 stress increases risk of heart problems
Stress and fear in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may be making Americans sicker, according to a groundbreaking new study by UC Irvine researchers. For the first time, acute stress responses to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have been linked to a 53 percent increased incidence in cardiovascular ailments over three years following Sept. 11.
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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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Sunday, April 22, 2007
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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.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Terror stress effect ‘widespread’
Terrorist attacks have widespread effects on people’s mental health even when they are not directly involved or are far away at the time, experts say. They found that after an attack in an urban area, 11 to 13% of the general population may suffer post-traumatic stress during the following six weeks. In the review, Chris Brewin, professor of clinical psychology at University College London found that 30-40% of people directly affected by terrorist action are likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and at least 20% still experience symptoms two years later.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
The Flavor Of Memories
Two crucial facts that neurologists have come to understand in the past few years about the workings of human memory--facts that have important implications for the treatment of a variety of mental disorders, from post-traumatic stress to obsessive-compulsive disorder. The first is that, despite its movie-like clarity, my memory of J.F.K.’s assassination is almost certainly wrong in some details, and maybe even some significant ones. That’s because I’m not simply calling up the original memory laid down in November 1963. I’m recalling the last time I thought about it. Each time we retrieve and re-store a memory, it can be subtly altered by all sorts of factors. What goes back into our brains is like the new version of a text document, overwriting the old. The second fact: memory and emotion are intimately linked biochemically, with hormones like adrenaline actively involved in forming the neurological patterns we call memories.
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Friday, January 14, 2005
Striking at the heart of America: Trauma of 9/11 linked to spike in MI
A new analysis using data from the Worcester Heart Attack Study shows a transient rise in the risk for myocardial infarction on the day of and the day after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, as high as three times the risk seen in previous months or years.
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Monday, November 01, 2004
Job-stressed women more vulnerable than men to 9/11 trauma
Women who faced everyday work stress were particularly vulnerable to symptoms of anxiety and increased alcohol consumption following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, according to a new study published by psychiatric researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Drawing on data from a longitudinal survey on workplace stress in both men and women, the researchers found that women who reported sexual harassment, general abuse or powerlessness in their jobs were more likely than men to suffer mental health consequences after Sept. 11.
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Research Measures Emotional Toll of 9/11 Depression Among Major Residuals
Researchers studying the emotional aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon reported yesterday that depression and post-traumatic stress remained significant two years later in an office of military and civilian employees who lost two dozen of their colleagues.
Monday, February 24, 2003
Four Groups of New Yorkers Still Suffer Stress After 9/11
In the first-ever report of a still-unpublished study outlining New Yorkers psychological status more than a year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, researchers from The New York Academy of Medicine have found that four distinct groups were most likely to still be suffering from persistent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as of last month. Those groups, identified Monday for the first time at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Denver, are:
Thursday, November 21, 2002
Study: Stress Caused by Sept. 11 Attacks Affected Heart Patients
While most Americans probably felt psychological stress after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, for a select group of heart patients, life-threatening heart rhythms more than doubled in the month after the events.
And researchers who presented their findings Wednesday speculated that continued preoccupation with media coverage may have had as much to do with causing the arrhythmias as the events themselves.
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Wednesday, October 02, 2002
Dreams Interrupted: A Year Later and Beyond
Yankelovich, Inc. offers a view of changes in the U.S. one year after 9/11. The article is a 25-page Acrobat document, so you’ll need Acrobat Reader in order to read it.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Attack’s psychological effect reached across the country
The psychological effects of the Sept. 11 attacks were not limited to those who experienced it directly, says a new national survey that found 17 percent of Americans still suffered symptoms of post-traumatic stress two months later.
Nearly 6 percent of Americans living outside of New York City reported such symptoms as long as six months after the attacks, says the study in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
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