http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/70224979/rosemary-mcleod-how-we-rise-from-grief-can-define-us New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard will be navigating an ocean of trauma of another kind for the next few years, heading an ambitious Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Britain. Possibly one in 20 children in Britain have been abused, she says, and police there are preparing forContinue Reading
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/varc-ipo072115.php This is the holy grail for brain imaging,” says lead researcher Dr. K. Luan Phan, chief of neuropsychiatric research at the Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center and professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “We hope in the future to be able to use scansContinue Reading
http://time.com/3960940/colorado-ptsd-marijuana/ Colorado’s approved list of uses for marijuana include muscle spasms, epilepsy, cancer, severe nausea and glaucoma. After hearing testimony from veterans hoping to access the drug, most of the board’s members said they could not support it because there is not enough scientific evidence that marijuana can help withContinue Reading
http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/health/2015/07/17/tetris-video-game-may-ease-ptsd-study-suggests/30283397/ A week later, the Tetris players reported far fewer flashbacks over that previous week than their counterparts, and they scored much lower on PTSD questionnaires, according to the report, published July 1 in Psychological Science. “We showed that intrusive memories were virtually abolished by playing the computer game TetrisContinue Reading
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/848066 “Persons with TBI or PTSD can present with overlapping symptoms, making them challenging to tell apart,” coauthor Cyrus Raji, MD, PhD, from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), told Medscape Medical News. “SPECT imaging can be effectively used in both inpatient and outpatient settings to understand if aContinue Reading
On Nov. 16, 2010, SfN held the Public Advocacy Forum entitled “Military TBI & PTSD Research: Advancing Science, Reducing Stigma, and Providing Hope” at Neuroscience 2010 in San Diego. The forum featured a military leader, U.S. and international scientists, and a brain injury patient advocate for a discussion of theContinue Reading
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/post.traumatic.disorder.ptsd.raises.heart.disease.risk.for.women/57707.htm A new study suggests that post-traumatic disorder (PTSD) in women can increase their risk of incurring heart disease. The study came out in JAMA’s Circulation and is based on the work of investigators from Columbia University, led by Jennifer Sumner. It found that women who have been through traumaticContinue Reading
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-06-virtual-reality-exposure-therapy-military.html Clinical researchers in Emory’s Veterans Program will study the use of virtual reality exposure therapy to treat people suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to military sexual trauma. The virtual reality exposure therapy system, called BRAVEMIND, has been used to treat combat-related PTSD in veterans of Iraq andContinue Reading
Is #PTSD in your genes? http://t.co/b6xOE50CS6 @cnn http://t.co/RlboVI4y2C — Columbia Psychiatry (@ColumbiaPsych) March 16, 2015Continue Reading
The aim of the new study was to find predictive sets of early risk indicators that could be used to construct an algorithm similar to one previously developed for molecular and cancer research. The researchers used data from the Jerusalem Trauma Outreach and Prevention Study, for 4,743 participants admitted toContinue Reading
