'Brain Rangers' Monitor GIs' Mental Health
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Add long working days in 110 degree heat with the threat of death at the hands of insurgents. Subtract families, friends and spouses the troops are separated from by thousands of miles. Multiply by a yearlong tour. The result, sometimes, is battle fatigue.
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Evidence of how stress disrupts rational decision-making and short-term memory is reported today in research that could lead to drugs to treat mental illness.
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Soldiers are given questionnaires to see if explosions in Iraq and Afghanistan have left them with brain injuries.
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from new or exacerbated respiratory, mental and other health problems, according to a government report. officers and volunteers show persistent effects from environmental toxins and psychological stress.
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Thousands of U.S. troops with physical injuries and mental health problems are encountering a benefits system that is already overburdened.
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Aug. 18, 2004 -- Millions of people are affected by anxiety and sleep disorders. Now, researchers may be one step closer to understanding -- and eventually resolving -- these complicated conditions after studying a newly discovered brain protein.
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Brain scans can detect changes in grey matter, which could help doctors predict illnesses such as schizophrenia, British researchers said.
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WASHINGTON -- Many Iraq war soldiers, veterans and their families are not getting needed psychological help because a stressed military's mental health system is overwhelmed and understaffed, a task force of psychologists found.
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Scientists have mapped a key network of switches in the brain which could aid research into neurological conditions.
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More than one-third of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking medical treatment from the Veterans Health Administration report symptoms of stress or other mental disorders &#151; a tenfold increase in the last 18 months, according to an agency study.
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Measuring the well-being of a nation isn&#39;t as simple as figuring out a country&#39;s gross domestic product. But a team of economists and psychologists has developed a new method
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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 on mental health problems comes as increasingly more troops return from battle with serious but...
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The U.S. Army will start training all soldiers on Wednesday to recognize signs of post-traumatic stress and seek help when needed, but it still lacks the mental health resources to treat those troops.
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Online tools can help workers assess their planâs health.
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Brain scans have been developed which it is claimed can predict what a person is about to do.
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The U.S. military is ramping up a program to embed social scientists with its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has resulted in some successes -- and a bitter academic feud
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West Virginia University's neurosurgery department has launched a new system to help surgeons view brain disorders and diseases more precisely.