Sledding athletes are taking their lives, Did brain-rattling rides and high-speed crashes damage their brains?

Regardless, of where one might find themselves on a continuum of support for the 43-year-old rapper, it seems as though the public has been given front row access to West’s manic breakdown and have consequently formulated an opinion that could very well be based on the actions of a person who is in the depths of a severe mental health crisis. 

U.S. military personnel and veterans have a reputation for drinking heavily, but as with any stereotype, the characterization is more complex than that, new research has found.

Childhood abuse will often have reverberating effects later in adulthood, leading to therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

However, there is some debate over what form of therapy is most effective in this patient population.

A team in the US and Germany compared the efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy for PTSD (DBT-PTSD) with cognitive processing therapy (CPT).

Covering traumatic stories and facing distressing circumstances take a toll on journalists. Newsrooms must address it, but taboos are in the way. 

In the days, weeks and months before the sky fell, Lindsay Simpson felt everything was finally coming together. She had just gotten married. She and her new husband were closing on their first home together. At 32, she was a vice president for D.C. United. Then, just before that first game, a long aluminum railing cover fell from the seating area overhead and came crashing down. Nothing was the same after that.

The pupils of people with post-traumatic stress disorder respond differently to those without the condition when they look at emotional images, a new study has found.

They worked for my depression. Could they be the future of psychiatry?

A study from the National Institutes of Health confirms that neurofilament light chain as a blood biomarker can detect brain injury and predict recovery in multiple groups, including professional hockey players with acute or chronic concussions and clinic-based patients with mild, moderate, or severe traumatic brain injury.

Head injuries and concussion can have devastating, lifelong consequences, so can we afford to not keep searching for ways to keep our brains safe?