New Smart Phone Application Designed to Help Users Monitor Emotional Health
WASHINGTON, DC—Servicemembers, veterans, and their families will need to look no further than their smart phone for help in monitoring their emotional health.
View ArticleNICoE Offers Holistic Approach to Psychological Care
WASHINGTON, DC—A holistic approach to care makes the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) unique in how it treats servicemembers with psychological issues.
View ArticleResearchers Identifying Gender Differences in Combat Trauma
BETHESDA, MD—Women comprise nearly 20-percent of the military. Many women, like their male counterparts, return from combat traumatized by the events they experienced.
View ArticleMilitary Challenged to Provide Far-Forward Mental Health Care
BETHESDA, MD—For a handful of military mental health providers on the front lines, treating combat stress and trauma is an everyday occurrence. The military has begun to realize that the advice and...
View ArticleResearch Needed on Stress in Combat Medics
BETHESDA, MD—Where do you find resiliency as a healer and a soldier? As the role of combat medics becomes more and more important to the increasing survival rate of combat casualties, that is a...
View ArticleImprovements Made to Tracking Mild TBI Documentation
WASHINGTON, DC— The Army Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) electronic medical record systems are being upgraded to help providers better document mild TBI patient data in theater.
View ArticleMilitary Leaders Emphasize Need to Build Resilience in Troops and Families
WASHINGTON, DC—Building resilience in servicemembers must start when they enter basic training and must include their families, said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm Michael Mullen.
View ArticleTrying to Get Rest For The Weary: Managing Sleep Disorders In Returning...
WASHINGTON, DC—Returning servicemembers are among the some 40 million Americans who suffer from chronic long term sleep disorders, and, for reasons ranging from disrupted sleep during deployment,...
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Often Misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's Disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy...
Patients with chronic traumatic encephalopathy are sometimes diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias until post-mortem brain examination proves otherwise. CTE, a preventable...
View ArticlemTBI Research Trial Comes Under Fire from DoD IG
WASHINGTON—A military research clinical trial evaluating the use of antioxidants to reduce sequela of mTBI in 80 troops after blast injury has come under fire by DoD’s Inspector General (IG).
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