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		<title>Abused Children May Get Unique Form of PTSD</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/30/abused-children-may-get-different-form-of-ptsd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Child abuse scars not just the brain and body, but, according to the latest research, but may leave its mark on genes as well. The research, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that abused children who develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may experience a biologically distinct form of the disorder from PTSD caused by other types of trauma later in life. “The main aim of our study was to address the question of whether patients with same clinical diagnosis but different early environments have the same underlying biology,” says Divya Mehta, corresponding author of the study and a postdoctoral student at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany.   To find out, Mehta&#8217;s team studied blood cells from 169 people in Atlanta who were participating in the Grady Trauma Project.  Most were in their late 30s to mid 40s and were African American; some had been abused as children but all had suffered at least two other significant traumatic events, such as being held at gun- or knife point, having a major car accident or being raped. On average, the participants experienced seven major traumas. Despite these events, however, the majority were resilient: 108 participants never developed PTSD. Among the 61 that did, 32 had been abused as children and 29 had not.  The authors examined their blood cells, looking for genetic changes that distinguished people with the disorder who had been abused from those who had not. To focus on changes associated with PTSD diagnosis rather than trauma exposure alone, they looked for differences not seen in the resilient group. MORE: How Child Abuse Primes the Brain for Future Mental Illness These genetic alterations are known as epigenetic changes: chemical differences that don’t mutate the DNA itself but affect how actively and efficiently the genes are made into proteins. By either silencing or activating genes, epigenetic changes can influence everything from brain development and functioning to the risk for certain diseases. While not necessarily permanent, some of these changes can last a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85783&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Terror Hijacks the Brain</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/16/how-terror-hijacks-the-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear short circuits the brain, especially when it hits close to home, experts say— making coping with events like the bombings at the Boston Marathon especially tricky. “When people are terrorized, the smartest parts of our brain tend to shut down,” says Dr. Bruce Perry, Senior Fellow of the ChildTrauma Academy. (Disclosure:  he and I have written books together). When the brain is under severe threat, it immediately changes the way it processes information, and starts to prioritize rapid responses. “The normal long pathways through the orbitofrontal cortex, where people evaluate situations in a logical and conscious fashion and [consider] the risks and benefits of different behaviors— that gets short circuited,” says Dr. Eric Hollander, professor of psychiatry at Montefiore/Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York.  Instead, he says, “You have sensory input right through the sensory [regions] and into the amygdala or limbic system.” MORE: Inside the Hunt for the Marathon Bomber This dramatically alters how we think, since the limbic system is deeply engaged with modulating our emotions.  “The neural networks in the brain that are involved in rational, abstract cognition— essentially, the systems that mediate our most humane and creative thoughts— are very sensitive to emotional states, especially fear,” says Perry. So when people are terrorized, “Problem solving becomes more categorical, concrete and emotional [and] we become more vulnerable to reactive and short-sighted solutions,” he says. Every loud sound suddenly becomes a potential threat, for example, and even mundane circumstances such as a person who avoids eye contact can take on suspicious and ominous meaning and elicit an extreme, alert-ready response. Such informational triage can be essential to surviving traumatic experience, of course.  “Severe threats to well-being activate hard wired circuits in the brain and produce responses that help us survive,” explains Joseph LeDoux, professor of psychology and neuroscience at New York University, “This process is the most important thing for the organism at the moment, and brain resources are monopolized to achieve the goal of coping with the threat.” PHOTOS: Tragedy in Boston: One Photographer&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84763&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Marathon Tragedy: How To Locate Friends and Family and Donate Blood</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/15/how-to-locate-friends-and-donate-blood-in-boston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explosions near the Boston Marathon finish line have killed at least two and injured at least 23. While local and national authorities still don&#8217;t know what caused the blasts, aid organizations are ready help connect victims with their loved ones and coordinate any volunteer efforts to support those in need. The American Red Cross has a Safe and Well website that serves as a a hub for people in U.S. disaster zones so displaced people can log their current status, and concerned family and friends can access their information. Here are the directions for using the Safe and Well website from the American Red Cross: If you are currently being affected by a disaster somewhere in the U.S., click List Myself as Safe and Well, enter your pre-disaster address and phone number, and select any of the standard message options. If you are concerned about a loved one in the U.S., click Search Registrants and enter the person’s name and pre-disaster phone number OR address. If they have registered, you will be able to view the messages they have posted. Google has also released person finder, for the Boston Marathon Explosions. Users can log on if they are looking for someone, or if they have information about an individual. To donate blood, several Red Cross donation spots throughout Massachusetts and in the city of Boston are open to donors. Check which donation spot is closest to you here, or listed below. So far, the American Red Cross has said blood supplies are high: Thanks to generosity of volunteer blood donors there is currently enough blood on the shelves to meet demand. #BostonMarathon&#8212; American Red Cross (@RedCross) April 15, 2013 Boston Donation Center 274 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02116 Braintree Blood Donation Center 170 Forbes Road Braintree, MA 02184 Dedham Blood Donation Center 180 Rustcraft Road Suite 115 Dedham, MA 02026 North Shore Blood Donation Center 99 Rosewood Drive Danvers, MA 01923 Raynham Blood Donation Center 275 New State Hwy (Rte 44) Raynham, MA 02767 Springfield Blood Donation Center 3500 Main Street Springfield, MA 01107 Worcester Blood Donation Center 381<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84712&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Women Abused As Kids More Likely To Have Children With Autism</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/21/study-women-abused-as-kids-are-more-likely-to-have-children-with-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results are the first to suggest a trans-generational contributor to the developmental disorder. The study, published in the  journal JAMA Psychiatry, is the first to examine the potential legacy that a mother&#8217;s experience with childhood abuse could have on the health of her own children. The findings are especially sobering given the latest statistics released from the Centers for Disease Control, which found a significantly higher rate of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) — one in 50 compared to one in 88 from a report released in 2012 — among school-aged children than previously thought. The authors of the JAMA Psychiatry paper studied more than 50,000 women enrolled in the Nurse&#8217;s Health Study II, who were asked about any history of abuse before they were 12. The questions delved into both physical and emotional abuse, as the women evaluated whether they had been hit hard enough to leave bruises, as well as whether adults or caregivers had insulted, screamed or yelled at them. They also filled out questionnaires about whether their own children were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. The scientists also had access to the nurses&#8217; health records, so they could adjust for other maternal health factors known to influence autism risk, including nine pregnancy-related conditions such as preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, alcohol consumption and smoking. (MORE: Autism: Why Some Children ‘Bloom’ and Overcome Their Disabilities) Women who reported physical, emotional, or sexual abuse when they were young were more likely to have a child with autism compared to women who were not abused. The more severely the women were abused, the higher their chances of having a child with autism; compared to women who weren&#8217;t abused, those who endured the most serious mistreatment were 60% as likely to have an autistic child. Because it&#8217;s possible that a mother&#8217;s exposure to abuse as a child could also lead her to engage in behaviors associated with harming the fetus — such as smoking, drinking during pregnancy, using drugs, being overweight, having preterm labor or giving birth to a premature or low<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82711&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What About the Victim: The Steubenville Rape Victim&#8217;s Recovery</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/20/what-about-the-victim-the-steubenville-rape-victims-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does public exposure affect recovery from a very private, traumatic experience? The day after two Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players were found guilty in juvenile court of raping a 16-year-old girl, the victim faced a perilous new journey. Forced to confront her experience in public after photos and video of her on the night in question were circulated on social media, the 16-year-old is now being threatened by those siding with the athletes, who were part of the community&#8217;s beloved Big Red high school football team. Two girls made online threats to the victim via Twitter, menacing her with homicide and bodily harm for coming forward and launching the trial that led to the guilty verdicts for Ma’lik Richmond, 16, and Trent Mays, 17. The girls were arrested and taken to juvenile detention. Both Mays and Richmond face at least one year in juvenile detention, with Mays potentially serving an extra year for taking and distributing images of the girl while she was naked. But with so much attention focused on the lasting legacy the convictions will have on the boys, there seemingly hasn&#8217;t been as much concern for how the victim moves on from this very public exposure of a night she would rather put behind her. As the latest threats against her highlight, the fact that her experience unfolded in front of millions on social media may make her recovery all the more challenging. The social and emotional support that she does or does not receive now, experts say, could help determine whether she will be resilient or suffer lasting psychological damage. (MORE: Steubenville Rape Case: Witness Says He Took Photos of Alleged Victim) “We do know that the more severe the traumatic experience is, the more severe the reaction will be,” says Edna Foa, a professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and a leading expert on trauma. Rape, regardless of the level of physical force involved, is always traumatic, although, fortunately, the vast majority of people who suffer trauma do not develop<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82598&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Disasters and Trauma Can Affect Children&#8217;s Empathy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do children become more kind and empathetic after a disaster— or does the experience make them more focus more on self-preservation? The first study to examine the question in an experimental way shows that children&#8217;s reactions may depend on their age. The ability to study the altruistic and empathetic tendencies of youth before and after a natural disaster emerged after an earthquake struck in May 2008 in Mianyang, China. Scientists from the U.S. and Canada were already collaborating with Chinese researchers in the town in Sichuan province on a study of altruistic behavior when the earthquake, which measured 8.0 on the Richter scale, killed some 87,000 people, including many children. MORE: How Disasters Bring Out Our Kindness The original study was designed to track sharing behavior among a group of 30 six-year-olds and 30 nine-year-olds from impoverished backgrounds in two rural schools. The students each met individually with a researcher who offered them 100 appealing stickers, from which they could choose 10 favorites to keep. They were then given the choice to donate some of the remainder to an anonymous classmate who did not participate in the study. The children placed their donation in a sealed envelope in a “mailbox” while the researcher was blindfolded so the children would think that their donation was anonymous. After the earthquake, the scientists had the unique opportunity to turn a tragedy into a research opportunity. One month after the disaster, they conducted the same test of sharing behavior with another 60 kids of the same age and background from the same schools. Three years later, another 60 students were tested and their choices were compared to those of the earlier groups. Before the quake, both six- and nine-year olds donated similar amounts on average: one to two stickers. But one month later — when 95% were homeless, nearly 2% had lost an immediate family member and 8% had injured relatives — the six-year olds were slightly more selfish, while the nine-year-olds were more generous. At that point, the younger kids gave away an<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78221&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Childhood Trauma Leaves Legacy of Brain Changes</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/16/childhood-trauma-leaves-legacy-of-brain-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Painful experiences early in life can alter the brain in lasting ways. A difficult reality for psychiatrists and counselors of child abuse is that young victims are at high risk of becoming offenders themselves one day, although it&#8217;s unclear why. But now a team of behavioral geneticists in Switzerland report a possible reason: early psychological trauma may actually cause lasting changes in the brain that promote aggressive behavior in adulthood. Writing this week Translational Psychiatry, the researchers describe a series or experiments conducted in rats that led them to that conclusion. Animals placed in traumatic, fear-inducing situations around the time of puberty show high and sustained levels of aggression later in life. And while rats cannot substitute for humans, the scared rats also showed changes in hormone levels, brain activity, and genetic expression that appear very similar to traits observed among troubled and unusually violent people. MORE: Watching Mean People on TV Might Turn You Into One The main implication of the research, says study co-author Carmen Sandi, is that it links two previously observed phenomena: the higher rate of aggression among those experiencing early-life stress, and the blunted activation of a brain region known as the orbitofrontal cortex among people with pathological aggression. Social learning, it seems, may not be the only thing that makes abused kids more likely to grow up aggressive. &#8220;This is a key finding which highlights the importance of not only developing social programs and politics, but also of reinforcing research that could offer valid [medical] treatments for individuals that have been victimized early in life,&#8221; says Sandi, the director of the Brain Mind Institute at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in an email discussing the study. &#8220;We need to understand the neurobiological mechanisms to offer better solutions to break &#8216;the cycle of violence.&#8217;&#8221; In the study, Sandi and colleagues tested the rats for changes in specific regions of the brain following long periods of fear, and then tested a potential treatment to determine if it was possible to undo those brain changes. They began<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78042&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why War Helps, Rather than Harms, Some With PTSD</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/16/why-war-helps-rather-than-harms-some-with-ptsd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[War is often the trigger for mental illness, but the latest research reveals some unexpected effects of combat on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Feeling at home at war may seem like an oxymoron, but it has been reported for as long as wars have been. Now, research involving veterans of the war in Afghanistan suggests for the first time that some soldiers suffering from symptoms of PTSD before deployment improve during or after their combat duty.  And another new study suggests that the size of a particular brain region— the amygdala— may predict which soldiers are at highest risk for the disorder. MORE: Treating PTSD and TBI&#8230;Ethically Danish researchers studied 366 soldiers from Denmark before, during and after their tours of duty in Afghanistan for a paper published in Psychological Science.  The vast majority of the veterans — 84% — showed few signs of PTSD at any time during the study. Among the factors that distinguished the remaining PTSD sufferers was previous experience of trauma. These participants could be divided into four different groups depending on the way their symptoms changed during the course of service.  In three of these groups, deployment was beneficial, reducing symptoms at some point during the study. “By measuring PTSD symptoms in soldiers deployed to Afghanistan at five different time points, we find previously unseen patterns of PTSD development across time, and show the importance of childhood traumas —not combat— as predictors for lack of resilience,” says lead author Dorthe Berntsen of Aarhus University in Denmark. MORE: PTSD: Treatments That Work Receiving harsh physical punishment and witnessing domestic violence were highly correlated with PTSD, confirming previous studies suggesting that severe stress is most toxic and traumatic when people feel they have no control over a situation, a common scenario for children raised in a chaotic and violent home..  “Such events may be especially traumatic because they are events in which caregivers play a central role,” says Berntsen, “In such cases, the child often has no one to turn to. Loneliness, isolation, negative self-appraisal, and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=73965&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for a Time Out: Why Are 40,000 Children So Harshly Disciplined in Public Schools?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/10/time-for-a-time-out-why-are-40000-children-so-harshly-disciplined-in-public-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(UPDATED) Locked in cramped, windowless rooms, tied in body-restricting bags, denied food, water and bathroom access: all of this is happening not to patients in the overlooked back wards of state mental hospitals, but to children as young as 5 in American public schools. In the 2009-10 school year, some 40,000 children were restrained or isolated as discipline for bad behavior — most of these students had physical, developmental or learning and behavioral needs — according to Department of Education data. That research was cited in a revealing op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times written by a father whose daughter was deeply traumatized by such treatment. A 2009 Government Accountability Office report also found “hundreds of cases of alleged abuse and death related to the use of these methods on school children during the past two decades,” in both public and private schools. Practices of restraint and isolation were long used to control resistant patients in psychiatric facilities. But following decades of tragedy and trauma — including hundreds of deaths of patients who were subjected to such treatment — these tactics are now heavily regulated. Federal law requires that the least restrictive measures always be deployed and bans the use of isolation and restraint outright in cases where the patient poses no danger to his or herself or others.  In psychiatric centers, using seclusion or restraint for punishment or discipline is illegal. In fact, in much of Europe and in some U.S. psychiatric centers, restraints and isolation rooms have been eliminated entirely. (MORE: How Childhood Trauma May Make the Brain Vulnerable to Addiction, Depression) Yet there is no federal regulation, let alone an outright ban, of the disciplinary use of these tactics in U.S. public schools. Nor is there any requirement that educators be trained in the use of positive techniques; in many states, teachers may even add corporal punishment like beatings and paddling on top of restraint and isolation. These methods fail to change student behavior, and the result is a horrifyingly similar pattern of trauma, abuse and death<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=68285&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How PTSD and Addiction Can Be Safely Treated Together</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/15/how-ptsd-and-addiction-can-be-safely-treated-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to researchers' fears that PTSD therapy may trigger relapse in patients with addiction, a new study finds that when done right, both conditions can be treated simultaneously<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=66331&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Couples Therapy Can Help PTSD and Improve Relationships</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/15/couples-therapy-can-help-ptsd-and-improve-relationships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The distress of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) hurts not only the victims of trauma, but their loved ones as well, particularly their spouses or partners. Now a study suggests that a new type of couples therapy may help. PTSD has been particularly devastating for veterans of the Afghan and Iraq wars — suicide, which is commonly linked with the disorder, is now killing more U.S. soldiers than combat itself. But even for those who don&#8217;t take their own lives, the combination of PTSD and traumatic brain injury (TBI), caused by repeated concussions during battle — both signature wounds of today’s wars — is profoundly disabling, as columnist Nick Kristof described in a harrowing article in the New York Times last Sunday. Because these brain wounds are not visible, unlike a lost limb, they often go unacknowledged by the sufferer, undiagnosed and untreated. (MORE: Why Can&#8217;t the Army Win the War on Suicide?) &#8220;[I]f you want to understand how America is failing its soldiers and veterans, honoring them with lip service and ceremonies but breaking faith with them on all that matters most,&#8221; Kristof wrote, you should consider the story of Maj. Ben Richards, a rising star in the U.S. Army, who was eventually diagnosed with both TBI and PTSD and nearly lost his marriage to his wife, Farrah: A once boisterous dad who loved to roughhouse with his children — now there are four, ages 1 to 14 — Ben no longer seemed to know how to play with them. He often suffered incapacitating headaches, overwhelming fatigue and constant insomnia. Especially when dozing, he was on a hair trigger. If Farrah rose at night, she sometimes didn’t return to bed for fear that her husband might think she was an enemy and attack her. Instead, she’d spend the rest of the night on the couch. For a woman who had been functioning as a single mom and was now eager to resume her former married life, all this was devastating. And it got worse. Farrah would tell her husband things, and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=66266&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psychological Abuse: More Common, as Harmful as Other Child Maltreatment</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/30/psychological-abuse-more-common-and-equally-devastating-as-other-child-maltreatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may be the most common kind of child abuse — and the most challenging to deal with. But psychological abuse, or emotional abuse, rarely gets the kind of attention that sexual or physical abuse receives. That&#8217;s the message of a trio of pediatricians, who write this week in the journal Pediatrics with a clarion call to other family doctors and child specialists: stay alert to the signs of psychological maltreatment. Its effects can be every bit as devastating as those of other abuse. Psychological maltreatment can include terrorizing, belittling or neglecting a child, the pediatrician authors say. (MORE: Child Abuse Pediatricians Recommend Basic Parenting Classes to Reduce Maltreatment and Neglect) &#8220;We are talking about extremes and the likelihood of harm, or risk of harm, resulting from the kinds of behavior that make a child feel worthless, unloved or unwanted,&#8221; Harriet MacMillan, one of the three pediatrician authors, told reporters. What makes this kind maltreatment so challenging for pediatricians and for social services staff, however, is that it&#8217;s not defined by any one specific event, but rather by the nature of the relationship between caregiver and child. That makes it unusually hard to identify. Keeping a child in a constant state of fear is abuse, for example. But even the most loving parent will occasionally lose their cool and yell. Likewise, depriving a child of ordinary social interaction is also abuse, but there&#8217;s nothing wrong with sending a school-aged boy to stew alone in his room for an hour after he hits a younger sibling. All of this means that, for an outsider who observes even some dubious parenting practice, it can be hard to tell whether a relationship is actually abusive, or whether you&#8217;ve simply caught a family on a bad day. (MORE: How Child Abuse Primes the Brain for Future Mental Illness) Psychological abuse can also include what you might call &#8220;corrupting a child&#8221; — encouraging children to use illicit drugs, for example, or to engage in other illegal activities. In their Pediatrics paper, MacMillan and co-authors say<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=64939&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Military Suicide: Help for Families Worried About Their Service Member</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/12/military-suicide-help-for-families-worried-about-their-service-member/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suicides among U.S. service members are approaching crisis levels. Here's how their families can recognize the warning signs and provide them the best care possible<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=62839&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the Sandusky Verdict, Lessons for Parents</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/23/after-the-sandusky-verdict-lessons-for-parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sandusky trial reveals valuable lessons to help parents prevent child abuse or identify its early signs, experts say.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=62687&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Attacks Can Trigger Post-Traumatic Stress</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/21/heart-attacks-can-trigger-post-traumatic-stress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda MacMillan | Health.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many as 1 in 8 people who survive a heart attack will go on to develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Worse, PTSD symptoms increase the risk of having a second heart attack.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=62550&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Identify Genetic Changes that May Increase Risk of PTSD</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/03/scientists-identify-genetic-changes-that-may-increase-risk-of-ptsd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Natural disaster, violent crime and war are traumatic experiences for anyone to live through, yet some people recover quickly from these events while others struggle with lingering symptoms of PTSD. Why?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=56589&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study: 911 Dispatchers Experience PTSD Symptoms Too</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/29/study-911-dispatchers-experience-ptsd-symptoms-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not just those on the front lines of disaster or war who are at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study finds. Emergency dispatchers who respond to 911 calls also suffer a mental toll, especially when taking distressing calls involving accidental death and suicide. The new study shows that 911 dispatchers&#8217; indirect exposure to traumatic events can result in symptoms of PTSD. &#8220;Usually research considers links between disorders and how much emotional distress is experienced on the scene of a traumatic event,&#8221; said study author Dr. Michelle Lilly of Northern Illinois University in a statement. &#8220;However, this is the first study on emergency dispatchers, who experience the trauma indirectly.&#8221; For the study, published in the  Journal of Traumatic Stress, researchers questioned 171 emergency dispatchers currently working in 24 U.S. states. The dispatchers — predominately white women around age 38 with more than 11 years of dispatching experience — were asked about the types of calls they answer and their corresponding emotional distress. They participants then rated the types of calls that caused great distress and were asked to recall the worst call they ever received. (MORE: The Conundrum of Risky Painkillers for Veterans with PTSD) About 16% of the calls dispatchers identified as their worst involved the unexpected injury or death of a child. About 13% were suicidal callers, 10% were police-officer shootings and another 10% involved the unexpected death of an adult. The researchers report that the dispatchers experienced a high level of distress following 32% of potentially traumatic calls and that 3.5% of the dispatchers reported symptoms severe enough to be classified as PTSD. Not knowing what happens after calls are dispatched is a significant stressor for dispatchers, ABC News reports. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know the end result. We don&#8217;t know if they made it. There is no formal communication back to us,&#8221; Monica Gavio, a coordinator for the Burlington County, New Jersey, 911 communications center, told ABC News. (MORE: Evidence That Marijuana-like Drugs May Prevent PTSD) &#8220;The results show the need to provide these workers with prevention and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=56319&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boxer Quanitta Underwood&#8217;s Inspiring Fight Against Sexual Abuse — and for Olympic Gold</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/13/boxer-quanitta-underwoods-inspiring-fight-against-sexual-abuse-and-for-olympic-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most cases of sexual abuse remain hidden — the shame of the act borne tragically by the victim more often than by the perpetrator to whom it rightfully belongs. But Olympic boxing hopeful Quanitta (“Queen”) Underwood is fighting back. In one of the most moving features I’ve read in recent memory, Underwood, 27, shared her story with the New York Times. She is a five-time national champion and a contender — perhaps America&#8217;s best chance for a medal — in the first year that women&#8217;s boxing will be included as an Olympic event. The Times&#8217; Barry Bearak writes: Monday brings Underwood to a crossroad in her dreams: the start of the United States Olympic boxing trials for women in Spokane, Wash. The three American winners then go on to an international qualifying event in Qinhuangdao, China, in May. Eight fighters in each division will advance to the Olympics. Underwood, of course, covets a gold medal and the fame that would come with it. “I want to take that ride,” she says. “I want to be a household name.” But beyond that, she wants to be a symbol of hope to anyone who has ever been sexually abused, though to do so requires something harder for her than a thousand hours of hitting the heavy bag. She has to talk about what happened. I, for one, am rooting for Quanitta. She has bared her darkest family secrets in hopes of helping others. And, like most abuse survivors, she was violated not by a stranger lurking in a park nor by some faceless kidnapper, but by a family member — her father — who should have been protecting her. MORE: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health, Obesity We now know more than ever about how childhood trauma can increase the risk of mental illness, addictions and even physical disorders like heart disease and stroke. Our bodies’ stress systems aren&#8217;t designed to handle high levels of chronic stress, such as that of living with an abuser or worrying nightly about how to protect your<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=53381&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mt. Rainier Shooting: Why Guns and National Parks Don&#8217;t Mix</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/05/mt-rainier-shooting-why-guns-and-national-parks-dont-mix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I had to draw a picture of heaven, it would look like Mt. Rainier. On the rare and treasured clear days that puncture the Pacific Northwest gloom, I can see its lofty peak from the top floor of my house. It stands sentinel over the city of Seattle, snow frosting its 14,410-foot peak and cascading down its sides. When my family moved here a year ago, my three kids and I spent the better part of two hours driving around town, asking people where the best vantage point was. Nearly 18 months later, we are still adding to our list of favorite spots to ogle the snowy summit. All that is a long way of saying that if you had to work on New Year’s Day, I could think of no better place to while away eight hours on the job than Mt. Rainier National Park. Except that’s not how it turned out at all. Tragically, on Jan. 1, a park ranger — a 34-year-old mother of 1- and 3-year-old girls who was married to another Rainier ranger — was gunned down inside the park. She had blocked a road with her patrol vehicle, trying to stop a visitor who’d evaded a traffic checkpoint designed to make sure that drivers had snow chains to stay safe on the park’s wintry roads. PHOTOS: Explosion and Shooting Rock Norway Benjamin Colton Barnes, a 24-year-old Iraq war veteran and the alleged gunman, didn’t have anything personal against Margaret Anderson. He’d headed to Mt. Rainier, where he’d often camped and fished, after apparently shooting four people at a New Year’s Eve party outside Seattle. He was seeking an escape route; Anderson simply stood in his way. He had a gun, so he won their face-off, then fled. On Monday, he was found dead in a creek, a victim of drowning and hypothermia. A handgun and rifle lay nearby. MORE: A Florida Judge Says It’s O.K. for Pediatricians to Ask About Guns Much has been written in recent days about the pros and cons of allowing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=51018&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rape and Violence: U.S. Survey Finds Much Higher Rates Than Thought</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/15/rape-and-violence-u-s-survey-finds-much-higher-rates-than-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Melnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every minute, 24 Americans suffer sexual or intimate-partner violence, according to an eye-opening new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That adds up to 12 million men and women victimized each year in the United States. The data come from a new public health surveillance tool launched in 2010 called the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS), which conducted random telephone surveys with 9,000 women and 7,400 men. The NISVS will be an ongoing, annual project aimed at better understanding the frequency of intimate partner violence. It is the first survey to provide national and state-level data on the problem. The results were sobering: Rape Nearly 1 in 5 women — or 1.3 million women — reported rape or attempted rape. For 80% of women, attacks first happened before age 25; and for 42%, before age 18. Most women knew their assailants: 51% were raped by a partner, and 48% were raped by an acquaintance. About 35% of women who had been raped as minors were again raped as adults, the survey found. There were far fewer male rape victims, but among them, 28% said they were first raped before the age of 11. While 52% of men were raped by an acquaintance, just over 15% were attacked by a stranger. Overall, most men and women who reported being raped were victimized by one person. Partner Violence A full third of American women and a quarter of men have experienced rape, sexual or physical violence, or stalking by a significant other — a girlfriend, boyfriend, partner or spouse. As many as 1 in 4 women, and 1 in 7, men have experienced severe physical violence at the hands of a partner, including being choked, punched, beaten, stabbed or shot. Many more have suffered lesser physical violence, including slapping and pushing. Stalking One in 6 women reported being stalked by an intimate partner, receiving unwanted phone calls, text messages and other forms of online and offline contact that caused her to fearing for her life<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=49053&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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