Researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Naval Health Research Center have found that mindfulness training - a combination of meditation and body awareness exercises - can help U.S. Marine Corps personnel prepare for and recover from stressful combat situations.
Date Posted: May 24, 2014
Categories: Meditation, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex ...
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TIMOR-LESTE: New research has suggested repeated violence could escalate the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression in post-conflict communities.
The six year study surveyed more than 1000 locals in Timor-Leste to ...
May 15
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma ...
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A new study has found that trauma levels for the long-term homeless are far greater than the general Australian community.
The study also identified a relationship between trauma exposure, mental health difficulties, social disadvantage and ...
May 2
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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Some of Australia's leading scientists, researchers and doctors have started world-first clinical research in Brisbane to unlock the code behind post-traumatic stress disorder - the debilitating and potentially fatal mental illness that impacts ...
Mar 25
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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New research from Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University demonstrates for the first time that there is a close relationship between body perception and the ability to remember. For us to be able to store new memories from our lives, we need to ...
Mar 12
Categories: Borderline Personality Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ...
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A new study of Gulf War veterans found an association between poor sleep quality and reduced gray matter volume in the brain's frontal lobe, which helps control important processes such as working memory and executive function.
Mar 3
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD, Sleep ...
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Chronic stress that produces inflammation and anxiety in mice appears to prime their immune systems for a prolonged fight, causing the animals to have an excessive reaction to a single acute stressor weeks later, new research suggests.
After the ...
Feb 24
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD, Stress ...
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Many children were among the victims of typhoon Haiyan, with one school in the Tacloban area of the Philippines losing 59 of its pupils. Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) psychiatrist Frederique Drogoul describes a mental health programme that will ...
Feb 10
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma ...
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The estimated 9 percent of college students who have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are likely to drink more alcohol than peers without the psychological condition. In turn, heavy alcohol consumption exacerbates their PTSD ...
Jan 22
Categories: Addictions, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex ...
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We often hear the cornerstone of healthy parenting quoted as consistently “responding with sensitivity” to our infants’ and children’s emotional and physical needs in relation to their biological-developmental stage. And while I agree this ...
Jan 21
Categories: Parenting, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex ...
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KUALA LUMPUR: Every year a number of our fellow citizens fall victim to floods. Volunteers all around the nation come forward to aid these victims, and slowly but surely, the damage to property is worked on as victims return to their homes.
However ...
Dec 17
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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A team of Montréal researchers at the IRCM led by Dr. Nabil G. Seidah, in collaboration with Dr. William C. Wetsel's team at Duke University in the United States, discovered that the protein PC7 plays a critical role in the brain by affecting ...
Dec 16
Categories: Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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Using a train-the-trainer approach, Filipino health professionals took part in a one-day workshop to learn how teach others in their communities to provide psychological first aid to support typhoon survivors.
Dec 12
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma ...
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Even after a disaster like Typhoon Haiyan, which ravaged the Philippines, kids have energy to burn.
Toronto social services worker Sandra Damota is in one of the devastated areas to ensure that some of those kids have a mentally healthy outlet for ...
Nov 28
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma ...
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Rodico Basilides visits a forlorn cross that stands as a memorial to his family who died in the catastrophic Philippine typhoon, one of countless survivors who are being forced to grieve without professional counseling.
“This is for my wife, ...
Nov 27
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma ...
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The latest version of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) controversial diagnostic code - "the DSM-5" - continues the check-list approach used in previous editions. To receive a specific diagnosis, a patient must exhibit a minimum number of ...
Nov 22
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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