PTSD Stories
- A large percentage of Americans are on psychiatric medications like antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills.
- There aren't many effective treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, but marijuana and MDMA may offer new hope.
- Scientists find "sleeping it off" after a fight may store bad memories in the brain for longer periods of time.
- Researchers think the spleen becomes a storage room of white blood cells even long after extreme stress has passed, and that could contribute to anxiety disorders.
- Why do stressed people often start drinking even more as a means of coping?
- Why do some people enjoy being scared while others avoid horror movies and haunted houses at all costs? It comes down to society evolving faster than our bodies.
- Scientists have suspected a link between traumatic brain injury and PTSD for many years, which more and more research supports.
- Scientists find targeting specific brain cells rather than the whole brain could significantly reduce anxiety behaviors.
- A new study finds that many veterans who return home from a warzone with PTSD also struggle to have an enjoyable sex life.
- American voters think veterans and PTSD sufferers should be able to treat conditions with legal, doctor-prescribed marijuana, new poll shows.
- Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp said a higher dose of its experimental drug for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) helped control symptoms in patients, sending its shares surging 46 percent in premarket trading.
- This is what Clinton, Sanders, and Trump have said about veterans' benefits, Alzheimer's disease, mental health, marijuana, and other health issues.