The horror of combat is something many veterans live with, but a new study at UCLA is underway to see if administering mild electrical currents into the brain can reset its networks for those dealing with post-traumatic stress …
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Veterans Are Pioneering Spiritual and Hallucinogenic Medial …
Regardless of one's opinion of war, most people can agree that taking care of soldiers when they come home is literally the least we can do. But soldiers are coming back with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and over 8,000 of them take their …
Treating PTSD: psychologists look to the fear-reduction effects of …
American psychologists are hoping to treat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with a recommendation so well-worn by family physicians, it almost seems mundane: exercise. The nascent field of research has …
'Empathy gaps' causing trauma in community mental health care
That's the reality faced by some mental health patients under Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) because of a perceived lack of empathy and understanding among some of the workers meant to be helping them, according …
Overworked to suicide
A lethal mix: how work-related social pressures and taboos around mental illness ravage white-collar workers in Japan.