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• ‘Albert Nobbs’ slow-paced, filled with complexity

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  Glenn Close is receiving great acclaim, including an Oscar nomination, for her role as Albert, a 19th-century woman who survives a traumatic childhood and scratches out a livelihood in a male-dominated society by passing as a man working as a waiter. Although Albert has been in service at various locations in the ...
  16 hours ago

• Legalization of Pot Use for PTSD Treatment in Vermont

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 116
  A lawmaker in Vermont is calling for the legalization of the use of medical marijuana for the treatment of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder . The bill to amend the medical marijuana law of Vermont was introduced earlier this month by state Rep. Jim Masland, who said that he did so in response to the ...
  18 hours ago

• 4 Month Old Pups Death Tied to Vets "War Trauma"?

  
  Wounded Times — Authority: 131
  This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. It is also not the first time PTSD has been blamed for it. With many veterans with PTSD turning to PTSD service dogs to help them heal, it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 days ago

• Helping heroes: Brain scan for PTSD

  
  Wounded Times — Authority: 131
  Helping heroes: Brain scan for PTSDJan. 23, 2012BACKGROUND: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition thats triggered by a terrifying event. Symptoms typically start... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 days ago

• A Returning Marine’s Struggle with PTSD

  
  Wounded Times — Authority: 131
  A Returning Marine’s Struggle with PTSDCOW Blogs : Bob Gillens Blog : Writer/director Nick Brennan’s latest film, A Marine’s Guide to Fishing, focuses on a Marine veteran struggling with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 days ago

• New USO Public Service Announcement About Combat and PTSD

  
  Wounded Times — Authority: 131
  Military Heroes Talk Candidly About Their Battle with Invisible Wounds in New USO Public Service AnnouncementIn “Portraits,” the USO’s first PSA on invisible wounds of war, Americans learn how... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 days ago

• Lack of compassion from other college students fuels troubles for some with PTSD

  
  Wounded Times — Authority: 131
  I am in my last semester at Valencia College for Digital Media Live Event Certification. I meet a lot of veterans, especially veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. PTSD is one of the things they talk... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 days ago

• Concussion in Winter Sports: How to Prevent and Identify

  
  Pragmatic Mom — Authority: 110
  My middle school’s school nurse just sent this out and I thought this was great information. Here are concussion symptoms from The Mayo Clinic : The signs and symptoms of a concussion can be subtle and may not be immediately apparent. Symptoms can last for days, weeks or even longer. The most common symptoms ...
  4 days ago

• Centralized Brain Injury Database Proposed

  
  Karon & Dalimonte Law Blog — Authority: 103
  Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a field that is difficult to study. One of the major limitations to studying TBI is that there is no centralized database of knowledge that exists for physicians to reference. Each state healthcare system, and often, individual doctors and hospitals, take what approaches ...
  5 days ago

• “Moving Forward” A Powerful Story of Recovery from T.B.I. | Full Length

  
  Local Ski & Snowboard News and Information from Squaw, Jackson, Telluride, Whistler, Snowbird and Stowe — Authority: 437
  Click here to view the embedded video. Moving Forward presents a very personal and sobering account of snowboarder  Danny Toumarkine’s experience with traumatic brain injury.  Danny Toumarkine and his brother Conor, originally from North Conway NH, have been shredding winters in Tahoe since 2007. After a ...
  1 week ago

• Stay Awake to Forgo Unpleasant Memories!

  
  Health Blog, with the most interesting health topics. Improve your lifestyle and become healthier. — Authority: 123
  Crisis occurs almost any time of the day, any season of the year. It affects people in all aspects of his life. In fact, the National Institute of Mental Health says that “there are many different responses to crisis. Most survivors have intense feelings after a traumatic event but recover from the trauma; others ...
  1 week ago

• After decades of untreated rage, Vietnam veteran finds peace

  
  Wounded Times — Authority: 131
  After decades of untreated rage, Vietnam veteran finds peaceLorene Parshall, Staff WriterJanuary 17, 2012Edward Fischer Jr. served as senior radio operator for Combat Operations with the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Brain Injury Care: Treatment and Reimbursement Challenges

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 410
  Giffords May Get Better Brain-Injury Care Than Most of Her Constituents  (ProPublica): “Despite the need for more research, Giffords’ story shows the potential of the treatments now available. But according to  Susan Connors , the president of the  Brain Injury Association of America , what treatment you ...
  1 week ago

• Do Not Just Sleep after Traumatic Experiences

  
  SLEEP Online Magazine - The SLEEP Blog - All about SLEEP, SLEEPING, and SLEEPINESS — Authority: 110
  Every now and then, people who may have experienced something bad or perhaps are in a bad mood would be normally told to sleep on it. But according to a study, it seems that such situations do have certain degrees. When an experience becomes truly tragic or traumatic, it is best to try and stay awake for the time ...
  1 week ago

• Stop Internet Censorship!

  
  Woman Tribune — Authority: 110
  Today, some of your favorite websites will not be displaying or functioning fully. They will not be at our collective disposal with just a click of a button, and their content will not be there, ready to entertain us, or inform us, or make us better citizens of the world. Instead, these websites will be dark or ...
  1 week ago

• Friends say Iraq vet charged with killing Mom had PTSD

  
  Wounded Times — Authority: 131
  Friends: Veteran charged with killing mom suffered from PTSDby Sherry Williams / KHOU 11 News KHOU.com staffkhou.comPosted on January 17, 2012 HOUSTON – The man suspected of shooting his... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Iraq War memories haunted Raytown veteran shot by police

  
  Wounded Times — Authority: 131
  Iraq War memories haunted Raytown veteran shot by policeBY BRIAN BURNESThe Kansas City StarAn Iraq War veteran fatally shot Thursday by Raytown police had been haunted by memories of his... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Do you remember the saying that you should never go to bed angry? Recent study suggests that sleep preserves and enhances unpleasant emotional memories.

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  Enlarge A recent study that included polysomnography, neuroscientists at UMass Amherst, suggests that emotional memories are protected by the brain during sleep. Credit: Photo courtesy of the University of Massachusetts Amherst           A recent study by sleep researchers at the University of ...
  1 week ago

• Sleep can preserve painful memories and make us feel worse

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk Sleep can preserve painful memories and make us feel worse University of Massachusetts researchers say that people made to watch an upsetting or traumatic event felt less emotional if they stayed awake afterwards. published date:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:15:03 GMT
  1 week ago

• Meh

  
  Confessions of a Serial Insomniac — Authority: 97
  I have a lot to discuss here. Fortunately for you, dearest reader, I am not going to do it now. Had Maisie (or her medical personnel? Probably the latter, given her virtual death sentence thanks to the fatalistic, useless hospital in which she was forced to go. That’s two members of my family and one [...Read ...
  1 week ago

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