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The Army’s special operations community has borne the brunt of twenty years of war, training and deploying at what a then-senior commander called an “unsustainable” pace. 

As the United States draws troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, a source of injury and death will cease. But research by the Veterans Health Administration will continue. The chief of neuropathology at the VA Boston Healthcare System, Dr. Ann McKee returned to Federal Drive with Tom Temin for an update.

Traumatic events affect people in different ways. Sometimes they simply become a memory of something that happened. But other times, a traumatic event can leave lasting scars and affect a person’s daily life. -- For information on treatments for PTSD visit The Treatment Hub.

LAUSD will restart in-person instruction in less than two weeks. Aviva Alvarez-Zakson, a world history and ethnic studies teacher at LAUSD’s Hamilton High, is anxious about going back to the job.

The past 18 months have been intense and traumatic for everyone – and no profession has been affected more than nursing.

By the summer of 2018, she was in a psychiatric treatment center somewhere in Utah, inside a room where the door didn’t close, voluntarily admitted yet not free to leave, the words of her doctors still fresh in her head. PTSD, they said.

"What we all went through that day was traumatic, and if you are hurting, please take advantage of the counseling services that are available to us." Editor's Note: If you or a loved one have contemplated suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or text TALK to 741741.

The artistic swimming world has long known it has a brain injury problem, but nobody knew how extensive it was. 

He was hit in the head with a metal pole during the melee and afterward, his wife said, he seemed to slip into a deep depression. He was ordered back to work eight days later, but he never made it.

Studies have found many who recovered from COVID experience cognitive decline.

Veterans with a history of mild traumatic brain injury showed vast improvement in cognitive function after 12 weeks using an online brain game program, according to a study published in the journal Brain on Tuesday.