Army to Train Soldiers About Brain Injuries, Other Mental Health Concerns
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The Army plans to begin a program today to educate every soldier about traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. The rare effort to break the perceived  stigma within the military about mental health problems comes as increasingly more troops return from battle with serious but u...
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Top officials in the Bush administration and on Capitol Hill said yesterday that the federal government must move quickly to revamp the nation's system for identifying and caring for military personnel with the invisible wounds of mental illness.
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Up to one in 14 soldiers may be unfit for active service through sickness or injury, MoD figures suggest.
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WASHINGTON -- Contractors who have worked in Iraq are returning home with the same kinds of combat-related mental health problems that afflict US military personnel, according to contractors, industry officials, and mental health specialists.
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Volunteers show marked improvement in verbal skills after a research team runs a weak current through their foreheads. The researchers say it could lead to innovative therapies for patients with brain injuries. By Amit Asaravala.
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U.S. troops returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer "daunting and growing" psychological problems -- with nearly 40 percent of soldiers, a third of Marines and half of the National Guard members reporting symptoms -- but the military's cadre of mental-health workers is "woefully...
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The Army, strained by unrelenting violence in Iraq and operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere, is considering ways it can speed up the creation of two combat brigades while shifting personnel and equipment from other military units.
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The veterans administration teams up with medicine men to use sweat lodges and talking circles to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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China is insisting that all new army recruits first obtain a clean bill of mental health to ensure they are &quot;suited to a military career&quot;, state media reported on Monday.
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Problems over treatment of wounded soldiers that created a scandal at the top U.S. military veterans' hospital are prevalent throughout the Army's health care system, lawmakers said on Monday.
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The commission investigating problems in health care for wounded military personnel focused on problems with moving patients through various stages of aid to home care and jobs.
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RICHMOND, Jan. 28 -- The Virginia General Assembly continued to move forward Monday to overhaul how the state cares for people with mental illness, promising to fix a system whose flaws were exposed last year after the shootings at Virginia Tech.
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NEW YORK  - The psychological needs of U.S. military personnel and their families are straining the current mental health services of the military, concludes an American Psychological Association (APA) Task Force charged with looking into the issue.
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U.S. soldiers serving repeated Iraq deployments are 50 percent more likely than those with one tour to suffer from acute combat stress, raising their risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the Army's first survey exploring how today's multiple war-zone rotations affect soldiers' mental...
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The Department of Veterans Affairs this week doubled the disability benefits of a West Virginia soldier who has been fighting for more compensation since he returned from Iraq, and assured him that he will receive immediate access to more mental health services to treat his post-traumatic stress...
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As thousands more wounded troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan, occupational therapists are now caring for a new generation of soldiers, working to return them to civilian life or the military using a variety of rehabilitation programs.
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-- The role of traumatic brain injury _ blamed for symptoms plaguing thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq _ might be overstated, contends a provocative military study that offers hope for successful treatment.