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A Link Between Trauma and Irritable Bowel?
Major psychological trauma may increase the risk of developing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), according to Mayo Clinic researchers, who presented data from a new study on Monday. The study involved...
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How Painful Is Pepper Spray?
Video footage of police using pepper spray on peacefully protesting students at the University of California, Davis, on Nov. 18 has sparked national outrage. But the use of such brutal force against...
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Rape and Violence: U.S. Survey Finds Much Higher Rates Than Thought
Every minute, 24 Americans suffer sexual or intimate-partner violence, according to an eye-opening new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That adds up to 12 million men...
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Mt. Rainier Shooting: Why Guns and National Parks Don’t Mix
If I had to draw a picture of heaven, it would look like Mt. Rainier. On the rare and treasured clear days that puncture the Pacific Northwest gloom, I can see its lofty peak from the top floor of my...
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Boxer Quanitta Underwood’s Inspiring Fight Against Sexual Abuse — and for...
Most cases of sexual abuse remain hidden — the shame of the act borne tragically by the victim more often than by the perpetrator to whom it rightfully belongs. But Olympic boxing hopeful Quanitta...
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Study: 911 Dispatchers Experience PTSD Symptoms Too
It’s not just those on the front lines of disaster or war who are at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study finds. Emergency dispatchers who respond to 911 calls also suffer a...
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Scientists Identify Genetic Changes that May Increase Risk of PTSD
Natural disaster, violent crime and war are traumatic experiences for anyone to live through, yet some people recover quickly from these events while others struggle with lingering symptoms of PTSD. Why?
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Heart Attacks Can Trigger Post-Traumatic Stress
As many as 1 in 8 people who survive a heart attack will go on to develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Worse, PTSD symptoms increase the risk of having a second heart attack.
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After the Sandusky Verdict, Lessons for Parents
The Sandusky trial reveals valuable lessons to help parents prevent child abuse or identify its early signs, experts say.
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Military Suicide: Help for Families Worried About Their Service Member
Suicides among U.S. service members are approaching crisis levels. Here's how their families can recognize the warning signs and provide them the best care possible
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Psychological Abuse: More Common, as Harmful as Other Child Maltreatment
It may be the most common kind of child abuse — and the most challenging to deal with. But psychological abuse, or emotional abuse, rarely gets the kind of attention that sexual or physical abuse...
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Couples Therapy Can Help PTSD and Improve Relationships
The distress of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) hurts not only the victims of trauma, but their loved ones as well, particularly their spouses or partners. Now a study suggests that a new type of...
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How PTSD and Addiction Can Be Safely Treated Together
Contrary to researchers' fears that PTSD therapy may trigger relapse in patients with addiction, a new study finds that when done right, both conditions can be treated simultaneously
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Time for a Time Out: Why Are 40,000 Children So Harshly Disciplined in Public...
(UPDATED) Locked in cramped, windowless rooms, tied in body-restricting bags, denied food, water and bathroom access: all of this is happening not to patients in the overlooked back wards of state...
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Why War Helps, Rather than Harms, Some With PTSD
War is often the trigger for mental illness, but the latest research reveals some unexpected effects of combat on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Feeling at home at war may seem like an...
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Childhood Trauma Leaves Legacy of Brain Changes
Painful experiences early in life can alter the brain in lasting ways. A difficult reality for psychiatrists and counselors of child abuse is that young victims are at high risk of becoming offenders...
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How Disasters and Trauma Can Affect Children’s Empathy
Do children become more kind and empathetic after a disaster— or does the experience make them more focus more on self-preservation? The first study to examine the question in an experimental way shows...
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Report Reveals Flaws In Army’s Handling Of PTSD
The Army has more than doubled its number of military and civilian behavioral health workers in the past five years, but a litany of shortcomings still plagues the force when it comes to diagnosing and...
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What About the Victim: The Steubenville Rape Victim’s Recovery
How does public exposure affect recovery from a very private, traumatic experience? The day after two Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players were found guilty in juvenile court of raping a...
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Study: Women Abused As Kids More Likely To Have Children With Autism
The results are the first to suggest a trans-generational contributor to the developmental disorder. The study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, is the first to examine the potential legacy...
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