Topic: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
AP News | 2009-11-20 18:50:34
<div id="subtitle">Military experiment seeks clues to predict which troops might suffer post-traumatic stress</div><div><p>Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.< ...
AP Features | 2009-11-10 07:03:55
<div><p>Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries — signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.</p><p>It's work that one day may allow far easier diagnosis for patients — civilian or military — who today struggle ...
AP News | 2009-10-14 18:34:23
<div id="subtitle">VA to make it easier for vets to qualify for combat stress compensation</div><div><p>Female soldiers and others serving in dangerous roles behind the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan have long complained it was hard to prove their combat experience when applying for disability for post-traumatic ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-10-08 17:36:52
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people who suffer whiplash in a car accident, feelings of being wronged may raise their risk of lingering post-traumatic stress, a new study suggests.</p><p>The study, which followed 112 patients in rehab for whiplash injuries, found that 45 percent had symptoms of post-traumatic ...
