Winter amplifies PTSD symptoms through biology, darkness and isolation that hits veterans hard. Your brain needs sunlight to ...

The thousands of firefighters and other first responders on the front lines of the fires that are raging in the Los Angeles area are at increased risk for anxiety, depression, acute stress and ...

WOODHAVEN, Mich. -- A Michigan city is using a unique way to warn its citizens about the dangers of 4th of July fireworks around veterans suffering from Post ...

Vietnam veterans fought a second war at home to get recognition and treatment. That fight created the modern VA mental health ...

A lot of cities and towns will be having fireworks displays, while Arizonans may set off legal fireworks in their own neighborhoods this Fourth of July. However, one charity is concerned that might be ...

On July 7, 2016, a 25-year-old Army reservist fatally shot five Dallas officers as they escorted protesters during a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown. But that night wasn’t the first time Micah ...

A new study published in the journal Human-Animal Interactions has revealed that exposure to wildlife and forest walks can help ease the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in US war ...

A new study in Biological Psychiatry has linked signs of heightened arousal and reactivity -- a core symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- to overactivity of the locus coeruleus (LC), a ...

Training a service dog doesn’t just change the life of another veteran; it may help heal the trainer, too. A new study finds that volunteering with dogs could slow biological aging in female veterans ...

How does PTSD differ in the short term versus the long term? Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a mental health condition that develops following exposure to a life-threatening event such as ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ian H. Stanley, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (THE CONVERSATION) The ...