AS a veteran, I want politicians and public figures to try and understand what military deployment is like, and to relate to my experiences. But I’m not sure I want Sarah Palin weighing in
A new paper in the prestigious Journal of Neuroscience makes some exciting claims about the neurobiology of PTSD – but are the methods solid?
Help is needed for a retired Golden Valley police officer who has fallen on hard times.
For Justin Six, the nightmares started after Kosovo.
“We were doing a maneuver and I was about to shoot an 8-year-old. That and working the mine fields,” said Six, a soldier living in Springdale, Arkansas, with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Soldiers deployed to Afghanistan had a spike in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in the months immediately after their return, but also five years later, according to a Dutch study.
Yoga has come a long way in the past 50 years.
Once regarded as pseudo-treatment operating on the fringe and lacking in scientific value, yoga has found mainstream acceptance and has been incorporated into medical and psychiatric therapies.
Heightened fear responses occur in certain areas of the brain in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study reports.
Going the extra mile, or should we say going the extra few hundred miles. A veteran is walking across the country to visit the families of fallen marines, help his fellow troops deal with PTSD, and help himself deal with the same issues. FOX35’s Jackie Orozco caught up with the Marine from Maryland when he made a stop in Indian Harbor Beach in Brevard County.
It was after the Sept. 11 terror attacks that I first felt an obligation to serve my country. It was the fall of my senior year and my high school in north Jersey had a clear line of sight to the Manhattan skyline.
My friend, Marsha, is the oldest of seven and the daughter of a World War II combat veteran. Marsha’s father, like most men of his generation, spoke very little about his war experiences, and what happened in the war was never directly known by most of his children.