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News: February 14, 2012
PTSD, Respiratory Problems May Be Linked in 9/11 Responders
FRIDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) --Among 9/11 responders at the World Trade Center, the onset of respiratory problems and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) seems to be strongly correlated, with indications that PTSD may lay the groundwork for ...
In High-Tech Age, the Good, Old Letter Still Holds Sway
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Instant communication may be all the rage, but old-fashioned letter-writing may have a more beneficial lasting effect on recipients. In a study involving soldiers serving in war zones, most in Iraq, researche...
Police at No Greater PTSD Risk Than General Public: Study
FRIDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Police officers who have to draw or fire their gun or use other weapons often report feeling powerless, guilty, angry and fearful afterward, Canadian researchers report. But despite being at greater risk for expe...
U.S. Military Women Exposed to More Combat Than Ever Before
THURSDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Female American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have been involved in more combat than in prior wars and have the same post-traumatic stress disorder rate as men, a new study has found. For the study, researc...
Scuba Diving May Help Paralyzed Vets
SATURDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Paralyzed veterans who learned to scuba dive experienced both physical and mental improvements, a new study suggests. Researchers brought 10 paralyzed veterans and nine healthy participants to the Cayman Isla...
Psychic Wounds Last for Those Touched by 9/11
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) -- John Feal need only look down each morning to remember the devastation of Sept. 11, 2001. Feal was a construction supervisor who went to help at Ground Zero the day after the terrorist attacks. As he worked a...
9/11 Tied to Increase in Acid Reflux Disease
TUESDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Those who were directly exposed to the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on 9/11 appear to face an increased risk for developing long-lasting symptoms of acid reflux disease, New York City health researchers...
Effects of Combat Stress May Not Last as Long as Thought
TUESDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The intense combat stress experienced by soldiers deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan or other war-torn countries may prime their brains for the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but new research ...
Months After Shootings, Many Virginia Tech Students Suffered PTSD
FRIDAY, Aug. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Post-traumatic stress disorder was reported by 15.4 percent of Virginia Tech students several months after the shooting rampage at the school in April 2007, a new study indicates. During the attack by a lone gunm...
Mexican Immigrants to U.S. Prone to Depression, Anxiety Disorders
WEDNESDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- Young adult Mexican migrants in the United States are much more likely to suffer depression and anxiety disorders than family members of migrants who remain in Mexico, a new study finds. Researchers compared ...
Stress Hormone Linked to PTSD Symptoms in Women
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Women, but not men, with post-traumatic stress disorder have high blood levels of a stress-related hormone, new research shows. The hormone -- pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) -- is ...
Brain Anomaly Leaves Woman Without Fear
THURSDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers who have studied a woman with a missing amygdala -- the part of the brain believed to generate fear -- report that their findings may help improve treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD...
Study Suggests Link Between Crohn's Disease and PTSD
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Crohn's disease may cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study contends. The study included nearly 600 Swiss adults with Crohn's disease, an incurable inflammatory bowel disorder that causes seve...
Kids of Deployed Soldiers May Face More Mental Health Woes
MONDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Mental and behavioral problems cause children of U.S. soldiers deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other war zones to need considerably more outpatient medical visits than those with non-deployed parents, a new stu...
PTSD Linked to 'Hyperactivity' in Right Brain
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) The flashbacks experienced by people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are associated with heightened activity on the right side of the brain, a new study finds. In research that included 80 people with...
Depression, Anxiety May Raise Surgery Risks
TUESDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- People with depression and anxiety have a slightly increased risk of death after undergoing surgery, a new study suggests. U.S. researchers analyzed data from 35,539 surgical patients admitted to intensive care...
Veterans With PTSD Suffer More Physical Ailments Than Their Peers
FRIDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. soldiers with post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer more physical ailments than those with no mental health issues, and this effect is stronger in wom...
Vets With Stress Disorder More Likely to Develop Dementia
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, are more likely to develop dementia than those without the disorder, according to researchers at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Texas. The ...
PTSD Peaks at Different Ages in Men, Women
WEDNESDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- Women are most vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) between ages 51 and 55, while men are more prone to the condition from ages 41 to 45, a new study finds. Danish researchers analyzed data fro...
Researchers Use Ecstasy to Treat PTSD
MONDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) -- A small study suggests that the illicit "club drug" Ecstasy may have one positive use: making psychotherapy more effective for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The drug, also known by its chemi...
Mom's Mental State Influenced Kids' Well-Being After 9/11: Study
THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- For New York City preschoolers, having a mother with lingering mental health issues after the 9/11 attacks influenced how they fared emotionally more than whether the children had actually witnessed the attack...
Major Depression Often Follows Brain Injury
TUESDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- People who are hospitalized for a traumatic brain injury face an almost eight-fold higher risk of also suffering major depression. That's the finding of a team led by Charles H. Bombardier, professor of rehabili...
Local Anesthetic May Relieve PTSD Symptoms
FRIDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) -- Injecting a local anesthetic next to a group of nerves in the neck, known as the stellate ganglion, is a fast-acting and effective way to treat combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), U.S. militar...
Survey May Help Docs Diagnose Mood Disorders
TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- A single-page questionnaire can help primary-care doctors screen patients for common psychiatric illnesses, U.S. researchers report. Called My Mood Monitor (M-3), the checklist includes 27 questions designed to...
PTSD Treatment Still Lacking for Veterans
TUESDAY, Feb. 16 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. veterans continue to meet barriers as they seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers say. Between 2002 and 2008, nearly 50,000 veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars received diag...
Biofeedback Now Seen as 'Regular' Medicine
THURSDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Biofeedback used to be thought of as alternative therapy -- something that might help but wasn't considered a fully legitimized medical treatment. No more.
Scientists Read Brain's Magnetic Fields to Spot PTSD
THURSDAY, Jan. 21 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time, researchers have been able to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by reading patterns of magnetic fields created by brain cells. The discovery, made by researchers at the Univers...
Pot Might Ease PTSD: Study
FRIDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Marijuana may help people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new study. PTSD affects 10 to 30 percent of people who experience a traumatic event, such as a car accident or terror attack. ...
Modern Wars, Modern Ills
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- The tragedy last week at Fort Hood, Texas, where an Army psychiatrist anticipating active duty has been blamed for killing 13 people and wounding 29 others in a shooting rampage, has sharpened the nation's fo...
Post-Traumatic Stress May Raise Death Risks
SATURDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder face an increased risk for dying after surgery, even if the surgery is performed years after they have completed their service, according to a U.S. study. Researche...
Trauma From Iraq Could Alter Veterans' Brains
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to show growing attention deficits in the year following their return, Boston University researchers report. In addition, in...
Service Dogs Help Traumatized Veterans Heal
THURSDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Iraq war veteran Jennifer Pacanowski was unaware that she was racing dangerously down the freeway at 85 miles an hour when she felt a wet nose nudge her elbow. She immediately slowed down.
Dopamine Lets Bad Experiences Linger
FRIDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine being able to prevent the formation of traumatic memories before they take root in the brain. That's the promise of a new study on long-term memory formation in rats -- assuming the findings can be appli...
Young Vets With PTSD More Prone to Heart Risk Factors
TUESDAY, Aug. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts who have mental health problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are also at higher risk for having cardiovascular disease risk factors, a new study su...
Many Veterans Need Mental Health Care
THURSDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- More than 40 percent of the U.S. soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars seen at VA hospitals suffer from mental health disorders or psychosocial behavioral problems, a new study shows. Curiously, the rese...
Moderate Drinking Might Guard Against Alzheimer's
MONDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults with no history of dementia could cut their odds of Alzheimer's and other cognitive decline by regular moderate drinking, new research suggests. Defining "moderate" as having one to two drinks a day...
Vets Who Repress Traumatic Memories May Not Be Worse Off
FRIDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) -- Veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may not be plagued by poor health and shortened lives if they repress their combat experiences, new research suggests. "The finding goes against the ...
Many Childhood Cancer Survivors Not Checking for Second Malignancies
MONDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- Many childhood cancer survivors aren't following recommended guidelines on screenings for second cancers as they reach adulthood. And some survivors suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder years after beating ...
Poor Health Linked to PTSD Risk Among Vets
FRIDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) -- Military personnel who have poor mental or physical health before they go into combat are more likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder following their battlefield experience, a U.S. military study f...
Brain Scans Might Help Spot PTSD
FRIDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- Someday, doctors might use brain scans to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to researchers who conducted tests on 42 American soldiers who'd recently served in Iraq or Afghanistan. The ma...
Post-Traumatic Stress Tied to Increased Suicide Risk
MONDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increases the risk of suicide in young adults, says a U.S. study of 1,698 participants who were tracked for 15 years after they started first grade in Baltimore public schoo...
Beta Blocker Blocks Feelings of Bad Memories
SUNDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine being able to decouple bad memories from the fear and anxiety they produce with just a pill. That's the promise of a new report from Dutch researchers published in the Feb. 15 advance online issue of Nat...
Video Game May Help Reduce Flashbacks From Trauma
THURSDAY, Jan. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A video game may hold promise as a preventative for the flashbacks some people experience after a traumatic event, a new study suggests. Healthy test subjects who played "Tetris," a video game in which a playe...
War Vets With Headaches Could Have Brain Problems
MONDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Headache frequency and severity caused by traumatic brain injury might signal cognitive deficits, suggests a new study of Iraq war veterans. Traumatic brain injuries, also called concussions, are common among vet...
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