Fire In The Blood

February 8, 2012: After a decade of research into using blood markers to determine who was most vulnerable to the psychological aftereffects of combat, the U.S. Army is now testing a blood analysis that can spot troops with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and to what degree they have it.

Dr. Steven Southwick is designated as the inaugural Greenberg Professor

Dr. Steven Southwick, newly named as the inaugural Greenberg Professor of Psychiatry, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Resilience, is a recognized expert on the psychological and neurobiological effects of extreme psychological trauma.

Women should be informed about abortion

In Natalie Plumb’s column on abortion, she talks about the psychological effects of abortion on the mother, and the apparent murder of the growing fetus. She believes that abortion should, eventually, become outlawed. Plumb fails to account for the effects of pregnancy on the mother.

Stressed in South Florida?

The American Psychological Association reveals deepening concern about stress and its harmful effects.

Caregiving Burden, Stress, and Health Effects Among Family Caregivers of Adult Cancer Patients [Grand Rounds]

Unlike professional caregivers such as physicians and nurses, informal caregivers, typically family members or friends, provide care to individuals with a variety of conditions including advanced age, dementia, and cancer. This experience is commonly perceived as a chronic stressor, and caregivers often experience negative psychological, behavioral, and physiological effects on their daily lives ...

The best medicine for productivity

( University of Haifa ) A worker experiencing the stress of intense workdays might develop somatic symptoms, such as stomachache or headache, which will eventually lead to taking leave of absence. But when the individual's supervisor offers emotional and instrumental support, the employee is more likely to recover without needing to take that extra afternoon or day off. This has been shown in a ...

Mark C. Russell, Ph.D., ABPP: Underestimating the True Prevalence of War Stress Injury in the Military

Media and official reports on prevalence rates of military war stress injury have focused almost exclusively on escalating rates of well-known war stress injuries such as PTSD, depression, generalized anxiety, substance abuse, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, the true impact from war trauma cannot be reduced to a handful of psychiatric diagnoses, as some may want.