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"They show up at the beginning of the day quiet and reserved, and at the end of the day it’s actually hard to peel them away," the executive director said.

His 2014 book, The Body Keeps the Score, has become a huge pandemic hit, topping bestseller lists this summer and becoming a meme on social media. What does it tell us about the world we live in?

Professor Willie Stewart from Glasgow University has published research showing that footballers are up to five times more likely to suffer from dementia than the general population.

Dave Shade is a former paratrooper who now owns a dog-training company, At Attention Dog Training.

The media, politicians, and the American public are contributing to this veteran suicide crisis by compounding moral injury—a major factor in veteran suicide. 

More and more, body-centered approaches have become a key component of trauma therapy, and addressing the dissociative fragmentation between mind, spirit, and body is a key part of healing.

The first responders are constantly answering our calls and responding to emergencies, but that can take a toll especially when it comes to mental health. -- For more information about treatments for PTSD please visit The Treatment Hub.

Employees may fear their health is at risk, and/or may be dealing with the trauma of losing a loved one to COVID-19.

Galea and his team also found that people who had a closer experience of the 9/11 attacks — say those who worked in the buildings, or people who lost loved ones — were at a higher risk of having PTSD and depression.

The 2019 study also examined a connection between autoimmune diseases and PTSD, one of the most common post-9/11 mental health diagnoses, which has been associated with autoimmunity problems in several studies. Community members with PTSD were nearly three times as likely to develop autoimmune diseases, researchers found.

Ibogaine is currently undergoing clinical trials abroad for its viability as a treatment for addiction, which can often occur simultaneously with traumatic brain injuries and PTSD.

A new study published in Frontiers in Psychology examines five forms of treatment for PTSD and offers insight into the types of patients that prefer each one.