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As many as 20 veterans out of 100 from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have PTSD, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

I grew up hearing family war stories. Both of my grandfathers served in the World War II era, and they recounted noble efforts by the Greatest Generation. My mom, a nurse in the Army Reserve, deployed in support of the first Gulf War; her stories were of swift victory in one of America’s shortest large-scale military conflicts. This year, as the last of U.S. troops began to withdraw from Afghanistan, I became a mother myself. What will I tell my children about my war, America’s longest?

Researchers find that people who only suffered mild infections can be plagued with life-altering and sometimes debilitating cognitive deficits.

A special project is under construction in Broken Arrow called 'The War at Home’ Memorial. City leaders said it will honor veterans whose battles continued through suffering from PTSD. -- For information about treatments for PTSD please visit The Treatment Hub.

The news coming out of Afghanistan has aroused conflicting emotions for military veterans who served there. For In Depth TODAY, Savannah Guthrie spoke with women from Hidden Heroes, a campaign that provides resources to veteran caregivers, about how events overseas are affecting their lives here at home. “We walk on pins and needles,” one says.

“Veterans should be on the lookout for red flags if news of Afghanistan starts changing behavior,” Dr. Sonya Norman, director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ PTSD Consultation Program, said in a statement late last week. “These include isolating, using alcohol and drugs or any increase in unhealthy behaviors compared to normal.”

For 50 years after World War II, Wilbur Jackson “Jack” Myers said he couldn’t talk about his experiences in Europe. He was dealing with post-traumatic stress — a term that originated decades after the war.

Stress isn’t usually a good thing for mental health. But during exercise it can be.

Congress finalized a bill Friday that orders the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary to launch a five-year pilot program that provides service dog training to benefit veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. 

Scientists are becoming more and more concerned with the emergence of a syndrome termed “long COVID”, where a significant percentage of sufferers of COVID-19 experience long-lasting symptoms.

At 4 a.m., they came to take Helen Maroulis’s blood. She was angry. She was confused. Only two years before she had won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, defeating the world’s most formidable 53-kilogram female wrestle. But by the summer of 2018, she was in a psychiatric treatment center somewhere in Utah. Post-traumatic stress disorder, they said. From concussions. From wrestling, the thing she loved the most. 

While debates in rugby rage about what equals a red card and what a suitable stand down following brain injury might be, science continues to bleed unnerving evidence into the mix that none of the above is relevant. If heightened risk of neurodegenerative conditions in later life is the greatest threat to the sport’s survival, which it is, one-off events are of at best marginal significance.