After Hurricane Helene sent its storm surge into Florida's west coast in late September, local emergency responders and health care workers pulled long hours on the job. Then came Hurricane Milton right behind it, with Category ...
Nov 15, 2024
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Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have uncovered that stress changes how our brain encodes and retrieves aversive memories, and discovered a promising new way to restore appropriate memory specificity ...
Nov 15, 2024
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The effects of war on those who fight and witness it firsthand can linger long after peace has been made and the troops have come home. In Canada, it is estimated that 10% of war-zone veterans will develop post-traumatic ...
Nov 14, 2024
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Attending suicide callouts is taking a toll on the mental health of paramedics, causing nightmares and flashbacks and harming their personal relationships, a study by the University of Otago, Wellington—Ōtākou Whakaihu ...
Nov 12, 2024
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One of the most powerful assets of the brain is that it can store information as memories, allowing us to learn from our mistakes. However, some memories remain vivid while others become forgotten. Unlike computers, our brains ...
Nov 11, 2024
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Researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at the Shamir Medical Center have demonstrated that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) improves the condition of PTSD sufferers who ...
Nov 11, 2024
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Alexithymia is a term you may not have heard before. But it describes something many people experience: difficulties in identifying, distinguishing and expressing emotions. It affects how people engage with their emotions ...
Nov 6, 2024
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that develops following exposure to one or more traumatic events. It is characterized by symptoms such as avoidance, changes in cognition and mood, and alterations ...
Oct 30, 2024
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A new University of Otago, Christchurch, study of participants from the Christchurch Muslim community has found more than 60% had suffered from mental health conditions such as PTSD and depression in the aftermath of the ...
Oct 30, 2024
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A Monash University-led study of emergency responders' workers compensation claims from exposure to extreme bushfires (Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 and the Black Summer fires of 2019 and 2020) found associations with ...
Oct 24, 2024
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