PTSD Symptoms May Be Rooted In Brain Connectivity
Understanding how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) impacts the brain is an important step to developing effective treatments for the many armed forces veterans who return from deployment [...]
Mental Health Grows Worse After Troops Return Home
When military personnel return home from deployment, they often struggle to adjust to civilian life. Exposure to traumatic incidents, like those troops witness in combat, is known to increase the [...]
Tetris Reduces Intrusive Memories in PTSD
People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) face sleep problems, hyper-vigilance, and intrusive memories. Playing video games may help people with PTSD recover, finds a study from the [...]
Go to Bed Early to Limit Negative Thoughts
For people who struggle with negative, recurring thoughts, sleep may be a solution. Researchers at Binghamton University in New York investigated the relationship between negative thoughts and [...]
Yoga Treatment Offers Balance to Veterans with PTSD
As many as one in five veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) finds that [...]
Sleep Quality Linked to Physical Activity in PTSD
Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often experience disrupted sleep as part of their symptoms. Poor sleep quality has wide-ranging effects, causing more problems than just [...]