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.

For many working at the Capitol, trauma from attacks is taking a toll.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.