"Florida scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to fly a fighter plane. Scientists at the university of Florida taught the 'brain', which was grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a rat embryo, to pilot an F-22 jet simulator. It was taught to control the flight path, even in mock hurricane-strength winds."

Nick Horner

"So after Gregg Keesling's son killed himself in Iraq in June, he expected his family would receive a letter from President Obama. What they got instead was a call from an Army official telling them that they were not eligible because their son had committed suicide. "We were shocked," said Mr. Keesling, 52, of Indianapolis. Under an unwritten policy that has existed at least since the Clinton administration, presidents have not sent letters to survivors of troops who took their own lives, even if it was at the war front, officials say. The roots of that policy, which has been passed from administration to administration via White House protocol officers, are murky and probably based in the view that suicide is not an honorable way to die, administration and military officials say."

"A former prison guard at the Anchorage Jail who was threatened by a convicted murderer intoxicated on hair spray and armed with a sharpened pencil deserves workers' compensation for mental injury, the Alaska Supreme Court has ruled. Carl Kelly, 60, suffered psychological health problems, maybe even post-traumatic stress disorder, from the 1994 confrontation, the court said. The decision makes it clear that in mental health workers' compensation cases, it is not the event itself that matters and whether what happened is considered part of the job, but how the event is perceived by the individual. "It's very significant," said longtime claimants attorney Chancy Croft, who was not involved in the case. "It makes it clear that the effect on the individual is important.""

"Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist. The eight trailers were used for nearly two years, until a permanent clinic was completed in September in another location on the base, said a Camp Lejeune medical spokesman, Navy Lt. j.g. Mark Jean-Pierre. The allegations became public after the dismissal of Dr. Kernan Manion, a civilian psychiatrist who says he was fired for writing memos to his military superiors complaining of shoddy care of Marines returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD, a condition that can make patients jumpy, fearful of loud noises and prone to flashbacks. "

"Winning the War Within is a blog written by author Ilona Meagher about developments, issues and resources related to PTSD. It features a comprehensive blogroll of other PTSD related blogs as well."

"I've written about this before on other blogs. Ilona Meagher's PTSD Combat blog and her subsequent book, 'Moving a Nation to Care', were among the notable earlier bloggers to take on PTSD and the suicide rate in our military. "

"Barbara Tierney of Carmel, NY wants to help our Veterans find FREE and EFFECTIVE treatments in their battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Psychiatrists, NLP practitioners, Yoga instructors, Bio-Feedback providers, Reiki practitioners, Social Workers, QiGong Instructors, Acupuncturists, Hypnotherapists, Cognitive Behavior Therapists, ANYONE that can help to ease the pain and trauma that our service men and women are dealing with. These people put their lives on the line so that WE can be safe. Why not do something to help them? "

"Jeremiah Workman"