Psychologists and disaster experts say natural disasters, such as the floods in Texas, can take a heavy mental health toll.

Pain isn't just a physical sensation-it also carries emotional weight. That distress, anguish, and anxiety can turn a ...

First responders see people on what could potentially be the worst day of their lives. Natural disasters, car accidents, ...

The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies has announced that Shira Maguen, PhD, has been selected to receive the ...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) isn’t caused by just one faulty switch in the brain; it’s more like a tangled orchestra of genes and cells thrown off-key by trauma. With many genetic players ...

Compared to nonmilvet samples, military and veteran participants exhibited lower proportions of diagnosis loss after cognitive processing therapy.

In addition to acknowledging other important social causes, June is also recognized as PTSD Awareness Month. In 2010, June 27 ...

Many books surrounding mental health are written by licensed professionals, many of whom have never actually experienced ...

Within months of Pennsylvania's medical cannabis program adding anxiety as a qualifying condition, that diagnosis quickly ...