Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) news
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- Soldier suicides this year could surpass the record rate of last year, Army officials said Thursday, urging military leaders at all levels to redouble prevention efforts for a force strained by two wars.
- While post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was not officially recognized as a clinical condition until 1980 -- it was called "battle fatigue" or "shell shock" in wars prior to Vietnam -- there have been studies of the symptoms in earlier conflicts.
- The role of traumatic brain injury — blamed for symptoms plaguing thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq — might be overstated, contends a provocative military study that offers hope for successful treatment.
- Amid the debate over how to effectively manage maternal mental-health disorders, a new type of postpartum illness is gaining attention: post-traumatic-stress disorder due to childbirth. PTSD is most commonly associated with combat veterans and victims of violent crime, but medical experts say it also can be brought on by a very painful or complicated labo...
- Former Staff Sgt. Kevin Owsley is not quite sure what rattled his brain in 2004: the roadside bomb that exploded about a yard from his Humvee or the rocket-propelled grenade that flung him across a road as he walked to a Porta Potti on base six weeks later. After each attack, he did what so many soldiers do in Iraq. He shrugged off his ailments — headache...
- Resources for and about healing combat trauma. The focus is on effective therapeutic care -- medical, psychological and legal -- for veterans and their families, plus analysis and context, and the slant is apolitical.
- researchers at the university of new mexico are continuing work on a $250,000 two-year study of the effects of acupuncture in treating ptsd.
- EFT is the abbreviation for Emotional Freedom Technique. It is a simple procedure of tapping certain locations on the face and body called "points" or "acupoints." It is similar to acupuncture but it uses no needles.
- A new study from Brigham Young University may support the idea that post-traumatic stress disorder manifests as a neurological disorder, with research suggesting that adults who suffered PTSD-causing maltreatment as children have reduced volume in the hippocampus. “The size reduction in the hippocampus seems to occur sometime after the initial exposure to...