Military.com | Apr 22, 2021
A sailor helped prevent the sinking of the destroyer John S. McCain. A Marine received the Purple Heart when his vehicle was blown off the road in Afghanistan. Both now bear the lifetime stigma of having their service branded as "other than honorable" by the military.
Yahoo! News | Apr 21, 2021
Two new studies found little evidence that early recruitment to the UK Armed Forces is associated with an adverse impact on long-term mental health.
KITV, ABC News Hawaii | Apr 21, 2021
According to Navy Region Hawai'i, over the past two years, about two to three sailors per year took their own lives in the islands.
The Guardian | Apr 21, 2021
Many psychologists say they feel unequipped to handle a growing number of patients despairing over the state of the planet. A new contingent of mental health professionals aims to fix that.
Associated Press | Apr 20, 2021
Carlil Pittman knows trauma firsthand. As the co-founder of the Chicago-based youth organization GoodKidsMadCity-Englewood, he grieved the loss of Delmonte Johnson, a young community activist, more than two years ago to the very thing the teen fought fiercely against: gun violence.
Yahoo! News | Apr 20, 2021
For many working at the Capitol, trauma from attacks is taking a toll.
Military.com | Apr 20, 2021
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that female veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are more than twice as likely as male veterans to suffer from ischemic heart disease than those without PTSD.
WLNY, CBS New York | Apr 20, 2021
Experts have compared the impact of the collective trauma on the front line to war. That’s why Northwell Health created a new center to help staff and their families process their grief.
Military Times | Apr 14, 2021
As demand for mental health services and suicide prevention programs increases within Veterans Affairs offices, staffers there may be at risk of exhaustion and burnout if changes aren’t made to better track and manage those employees, an outside watchdog warned Monday.
ABC4 Utah | Apr 14, 2021
To the Ma’ileis, working with Carr and the researchers at the University of Utah has been “life-changing.” According to Kristen, Marcus is happier, the social anxiety is gone, and even the singing around the house has returned.
Medical Xpress | Apr 14, 2021
In a new study, researchers at UGA's Regenerative Biosciences Center have demonstrated the long-term benefits of a hydrogel, which they call "brain glue," for the treatment of traumatic brain injury.
Brain & Life Magazine | Apr 13, 2021
“After just 10 minutes of playing piano, he'd resurrect, like a thirsty plant after a drink of water,” says Rosenstein. When she reported this to her husband's neurologist, he told her that music had the ability to “change brain chemistry,” she recalls. That was just the spark she needed to find others affected by neurodegenerative disease and bring music to them as well.
Las Vegas Sun | Apr 12, 2021
Constructed by UNLV students for a collegiate design competition, the house is intended to cater to those with post-traumatic stress disorder or those with brain trauma where random noises bring on stress.
The New York Times | Apr 12, 2021
As a trauma therapist, Abigail Nathanson guides her patients in visualization and a storytelling technique called imagery rescripting that can help them understand and cope with traumatic memories.
Vermont Public Radio (VPR) | Apr 12, 2021
During the pandemic, many hospice workers cared for patients who were dying without their families around them, often in long-term care facilities like Birchwood Terrace in Burlington, shown here. Some say this has had a lasting impact on them.
NBC News | Apr 12, 2021
NBC News’ Hallie Jackson sat down with Rep. Dan Kildee, who took that familiar photo of officers with their guns drawn in the House chamber, for an exclusive interview where he opens up about his mental health struggles since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The Washington Post | Apr 12, 2021
The brain of Phillip Adams will be tested for a degenerative disease that has affected a number of pro athletes and has been shown to cause violent mood swings and other cognitive disorders, according to the local coroner.
PBS NewsHour | Apr 9, 2021
A recent lesson on the French horn. It's known as a difficult instrument to play and master, and, for this amateur musician, it represents a kind of miracle.
Los Angeles Times | Apr 9, 2021
There are now movements to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms in over 100 cities.
WCBE | Apr 8, 2021
A powerful portrait series featuring Veterans and their struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder opens this weekend at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio.
The Wall Street Journal | Apr 7, 2021
Cognitive problems are among the most persistent and common lasting effects of Covid. Now some patients are getting help from brain rehab programs.
Scientific American | Apr 6, 2021
Vinod Menon, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, praised the researchers for “[uncovering] a potential brain circuit mechanism underlying individual differences in dissociative symptoms in adults with early-life trauma and PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder].”
WHYY Wisconsin | Apr 6, 2021
Rabinowitz partnered with George Collier of the Shepherd Center in Atlanta to create RehaBot, a motivational text message chatbot that helps people who have had traumatic brain injuries keep appointments and get reminders. It also assists with mental health check-ins between therapy sessions.
BBC | Apr 6, 2021
NHS England said care would be provided for a "wide range of mental health issues from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after giving birth to others with a severe fear of childbirth," for 1,001 days from conception.
ABC Australia | Apr 5, 2021
"I can say that without doing that I certainly wouldn't be here … that's a story I have had from a few others," she says.
