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Musical Healing for TBI and PTSD

Music therapy is an evidence-based therapeutic application for the treatment of brain and psychological injuries such as TBI and PTSD. Substantial scientific evidence supports how and why music therapy works, but it also can be understood intuitively.

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Dr. James Kelly: What’s Different About the Marcus Institute for Brain Health?

At the Marcus Institute, the focus is on spending time learning about their veteran patients and finding as accurate a diagnosis as possible in order to best tailor treatment.

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How Many Service Members Have Sustained a TBI?

Department of Defense: Military TBI Numbers 2000-2017

The latest traumatic brain injury data in the U.S. military.

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Medications for PTSD

Medications that have been shown to be helpful in treating PTSD symptoms are some of the same medications also used for symptoms of depression and anxiety.

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Help Your Veteran Get Needed Care

You may notice that things are not right for your loved one who served in combat, Do you know what to say?

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Conceptos básicos de tratamiento del TEPT

Leer una descripción sobre los tratamientos que han demostrado ser más eficaces para el TEPT. Esos tratamientos incluyen terapia de conversación y medicamentos.

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Equine Therapy Being Used to Help Wounded Warriors with TBI & PTSD

Photo of two people brushing and petting a brown horse who is facing the camera wearing a bridle

In equine therapy, the behavioral health specialist and the equine handler aren't the therapists the horses are.

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What Have We Learned About Blast Injury Since the Days of “Shell Shock”?

Blast Injury: What We Have Learned Since the Days of "Shell Shock"

Dr. Perl describes how what we know about blast injury has changed since the early days of 'shell shock' in World War I and in subsquent conflicts.

Daniel P. Perl, MD

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Concussion / Mild TBI

Military & Veterans

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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The Superhero’s Other Half: Helping Your Service Member Understand Your Alter Ego

When a service member is deployed the spouse is everything: head chef, accountant, mechanic, troubleshooter, problem solver, mother, father, good cop, and bad cop. Their job is moving from a dual parent role to a single parent role and back again, constantly. The challenge is that this takes some getting used to for both the spouse and the service member.

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Superhero in the House: Living with Your Service Member’s Alter Ego

Ever wonder what it was like for Superman at home? He has chores and responsibilities, just like every other spouse in a mutually supportive relationship. But how does he leave the cape at the door? And how does Lois get used to him wearing the cape around the house?

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Where to Get Help for PTSD

Information to help you find local mental health services and information on trauma and PTSD.

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DSM-5 Criteria for PTSD

Learn exactly what post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is and what can trigger it.

Have You Seen These Apps for PTSD?

Apps to help with PTSD.

8 Things a Mental Health Professional Wants a Veteran to Know

The list was written from my own experience as a combat veteran, and from what I’ve learned from veterans in my own work; this post is looking at things from the other side, based on my experiences as a mental health counselor.

My Seven-Year Nap

There are times when it feels like things cannot get any more surreal, and then they do. Such is the unexpected life that unfolds for so many of us after brain injury.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for PTSD

EMDR helps process and make sense of trauma. It involves calling the trauma to mind while paying attention to a back-and-forth movement or sound (like a finger waving side to side, a light, or a tone).

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PTSD Fact Sheet: Frequently Asked Questions

Learn more about this complex and sometimes debilitating mental state.

What Can I Do If I Think I Have PTSD?

When and how to seek help and why it matters.

We Lost Another Veteran Yesterday

It will be true on the day I post this, and it will be true on the day that you read it. Another Veteran will have succumbed to the struggle and died by suicide. You may wonder, “what can I do?”

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Living with an Invisible Disability

None of these challenges is blatant to the naked eye, but spend a bit of time with me, and you’ll learn soon enough that I’m not as normal as I look. Such is the nature of being invisibly disabled.

The Combat Addiction Paradox

Our lives did not peak on a mountaintop in Afghanistan, or a jungle in Vietnam. They do if we think they do; if we see that as the ultimate achievement in our lives, and everything else is downhill and meaningless, then that’s what we will believe. That’s not the case.

8 Things a Veteran Wants Their Mental Health Counselor to Know

Working with any client can be challenging, but veterans can be especially difficult because of the warrior culture that they are used to. Here what veterans would like their mental health counselor to know before working with them.

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