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[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] One-tenth of Iraq returned soldiers 'have mental health problems': WASHINGTON - British children with Indian ancestry have better mental health than British Whites, a new research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has shown. Anna Goodman, the report's lead author from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says: "Most research into ethnic differences focuses on issues where minority ethnic groups are doing worse than average.

[Riverwood Center News] Post-Combat Stress Disrupting Daily Lives of Returning Vets - Post ...: She offered two possible mechanisms for the relationship: PTSD could affect the brain's stress hormone pathways, possibly causing damage to the hippocampus, a brain area important for learning and memory; or genetic factors might increase the risk of developing both PTSD and dementia.

[Science Codex - Science news, science articles, all day, every day] About one-tenth of soldiers returning from Iraq may be impaired by ...: Between the three- and 12-month time points, depression and/or PTSD rates remained the same among Active Component soldiers but increased among National Guard soldiers, despite similar rates of combat experiences and similar prevalence rates of mental health problems three months after deployment. "Therefore, the emergence of differences by 12 months likely does not have to do with differences in the health effects of combat but rather with other variables related to readjustment to civilian life or access to health care," the authors write.

[Biology and Medicine] Combat in Iraq associated with post-deployment PTSD, depression in ...: Between 8.5 percent and 14 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq report serious functional impairment due to either posttraumatic stress disorder or depression, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

[NewsPlurk Health] Post-Combat Stress Disrupting Daily Lives of Returning Vets ...: MONDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- Up to 14 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression... U.S. News & World Report ( 6/7/2010 1:05:06 PM -08:00 ) .

[GPB News Feed] Military Still Failing To Diagnose, Treat Brain Injuries | Georgia ...: ABC News reporter Bob Woodruff chronicled the difficulties soldiers faced in getting treatment for head traumas after recovering from one himself, which he suffered in a 2006 roadside bombing in Iraq. The following year, a Washington Post series about substandard conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital described the plight of several soldiers with brain injuries.

[Beat Alcoholism 101] [Beat Alcoholism 101] post combat stress disrupting daily lives of ...: MONDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- Up to 14 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression that is severe enough to disrupt their daily lives, new research shows. Between 8.5 percent and 14 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq report serious functional impairment due to either posttraumatic stress disorder or depression, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, .

[HadIt.com VA Claims Research] Tbi Or Post Concussion Syndrome - hadit.com Veterans Forum: Since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, approximately 1000 service members have been treated for moderate or severe TBI, although 300,000 are publicly reported as having "TBI."1 A RAND Corporation report, biased by a lack of population-based data, illogically suggested that a concussion, which usually resolves rapidly (within hours to days), costs more in 1 year than a case of PTSD or depression, including suicide, costs in 2 years.1 Attribution theories involving blast also fuel negative expectations. One of the most widely cited studies purporting to show a relationship between primary blast exposure and postconcussive symptoms failed to define concussion.5

[UCSF News Office] Most Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with PTSD did not get enough ...: Seal observes that over 45 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have enrolled in VA health care, making the VA the single largest provider of health care for separated Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the United States. “Since early, evidence-based treatment may prevent chronic PTSD and associated problems such as substance abuse and suicide, it is essential that we continue to develop ways to overcome these barriers and get more young veterans into effective treatment,”

[Family Service & Community Mental Health Center News] Post-Combat Stress Disrupting Daily Lives of Returning Vets - Post ...: She offered two possible mechanisms for the relationship: PTSD could affect the brain's stress hormone pathways, possibly causing damage to the hippocampus, a brain area important for learning and memory; or genetic factors might increase the risk of developing both PTSD and dementia.

[Armada Media Blog News] Armada Media Blog News - » Blog Archive » PTSD Nearly Doubles Risk ...: “It is important that those with PTSD are treated, and further investigation is needed to see whether successful treatment of PTSD may reduce the risk of adverse health outcomes, including dementia. In addition, it is critical to follow up patients with PTSD, especially if they are of an advanced age, to screen for cognitive impairment.

[Todays-Healthy-Living] Depression Or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Affecting About 10% Of ...: Posttraumatic stress disorder or depression affects between 8.5% and 14% of soldiers returning from Iraq, says a report published in Archives of Psychiatry, a JAMA/Archives journal - causing serious functional impairment. ... of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan with post-deployment mental health problems, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression... This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 at 11:00 am and is filed under Current Health News. ...

[The Swamp] Huge spike in troops diagnosed with PTSD: The Swamp: The detailed figures for the four military services shows about a 46 percent increase in the number of troops diagnosed with PTSD in 2007--a spike that coincided with the most violent year of the Iraq war. Overall, nearly 40,000 have been diagnosed with the illness since 2003, though it is likely many more haven't sought help out of fear of being stigmatized.

[Political Animal] Invisible Wounds of War - The Washington Monthly: Thus, the instrument does not assess ongoing functional or cognitive impairment caused by a TBI. Most individuals who screen positive for having experienced a probable TBI are likely to have full cognitive functioning." (See RAND study at p.

[You Served® - Veteran and Military Blog and Military Podcast] Vicarious trauma and secondary PTSD: When she asks if something is wrong, Gary accuses her of nagging him, leaves the table, and spends the rest of the evening in his shop, where he continues to have intrusive thoughts about the war. His wife, on the other hand, is upset by behavior she does not understand.

[Julien Modica's Blog] VRDC Grant Overview « Julien Modica's Blog: form 2) - The NAB Memory Module provides a marker of an individual’s verbal explicit learning, visual explicit learning, verbal delayed free recall, visual delayed recognition memory, and verbal explicit learning and recognition of information likely to be encountered in day-to-day living. Examination of an individual’s performance on the NAB Memory Module will provide clinically useful information for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, strokes or aneurysms involving the anterior communicating artery, hypoxia/anoxia, Korsakoff’s syndrome, traumatic brain injury, neurotoxic exposure, electroconvulsive therapy, major depression, mesial temporal sclerosis, herpes encephalitis and other lesions (e.g., vascular, degenerative, epileptic, neoplastic, traumatic, metabolic, surgical) involving mesial temporal lobe structures.

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