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Standard-Examiner | Another HAFB suicide / Longtime employee: Morale low, feeling of po... - 0 views

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MSNBC | Army program helps ease stress of deployment - 0 views

  • Getting military personnel home safely requires much more than an airplane ride and a cursory post-deployment checkup, says Pat Canerdy, administrator of the Army Reserve's Chattanooga-based 591st Transportation Detachment. It's a lesson officials and families alike have had to learn the hard way throughout the global war on terror, which has led to historic highs in suicide and divorce rates.Just more than 5 percent of Army suicide victims had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a recent Department of Defense news release, and 17 percent reportedly had problems with substance abuse. Meanwhile, at least 60 percent had relationship problems.
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    Army Reserve's Chattanooga-based 591st Transportation Detachment prepares to implement the new Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program.\n\nAll branches of the service have some form of the program, according to Lt. Col. Robin Smith Sr., chief well-being officer for the Army Reserve. The Yellow Ribbon program was launched "to prepare soldiers and their families for mobilization, sustain the families during mobilization and to help with reintegration with their families, communities and employers upon redeployment," he said.\n\nThe program began as part of a requirement outlined in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2008 and became even more important as the steep suicide rates were recorded in recent months
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Smithsonian Magazine | Embedded Technologies: Power From the People - 0 views

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Veteran missing in Yellowstone has PTSD - 0 views

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    Peter Louis Kastner
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San Diego Union-Tribune | Why do some suffer PTSD, others don't? - 2 views

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    Michael Blair
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Peoria Journal Star | Soldier Suffering From PTSD Finds Relief in Experimental Treatment - 1 views

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    Jason Brown
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TIME | Study: PTSD Survivors' Children May Have Genetic Scars - 1 views

  • Over the years, a large body of work has been devoted to studying PTSD symptoms in second-generation survivors, and it has found signs of the condition in their behavior and even their blood — with higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, for example. The assumption — a perfectly reasonable one — was always that these symptoms were essentially learned. Grow up with parents afflicted with the mood swings, irritability, jumpiness and hypervigilance typical of PTSD and you're likely to wind up stressed and high-strung yourself.
  • Now a new paper adds another dimension to the science, suggesting that it's not just a second generation's emotional profile that can be affected by a parent's trauma; it may be their genes too. The study, published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, was conducted by a team led by neurobiologist Isabelle Mansuy of the University of Zurich. What she and her colleagues set out to explore went deeper than genetics in general, focusing instead on epigenetics — how genes change as a result of environmental factors in ways that can be passed onto the next generation.
  • "We saw the genetic differences both in the brains of the offspring mice and in the germline — or sperm — of the fathers," says Mansuy.
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A victory as Army mounts anti-suicide campaign | Gainesville.com - 1 views

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    Joseph Sanders
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Veterans Day 2009 Events - 0 views

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    "Far from a complete compilation, I've drawn together a number of activities and promotions (free food for vets! :o) that are being offered to coincide with Veterans Day, which takes place next Wednesday, November 11."
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Philadelphia Inquirer | Man shot by Phila. officer was AWOL Iraq veteran - 0 views

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    Kenneth Hershal DeShields
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The Star Press | Iraq veteran due in court Tuesday - 0 views

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Northern Today | Campus veterans plan week of activities for Veteran's Day - 0 views

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    "NIU communications major and noted blogger Ilona Meagher, author of "Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops," will moderate the Nov. 5 discussion, which begins at 6 p.m. in Room 405 of the Holmes Student Center. Veterans and members of the community are encouraged to share their thoughts and experiences. Meagher guided a similar conversation earlier this year in Chicago, said Kammes, who also enjoyed a similar experience in an NIU class titled "Education as an Agent for Change.""
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The Star Press | Army veteran with PTSD dies - 0 views

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    Kevin Kerrigan
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KPVI NEWS 6: Pocatello, Idaho Falls | Local Soldier Shares His Battle with PTSD - 0 views

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    Andy Frasure
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NIU Veterans Club Kicks Off Its Veterans Day Events as National Military Family Month B... - 0 views

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    "November ushers in National Military Family Month (read the president's proclamation), with Veterans Day observations around the country beginning in earnest this week and extending into next."
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Newsweek | PTSD: The VA's New Approach - 0 views

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    "Big changes underway at the VA could mean better treatment for thousands of vets. A bureaucracy in transition."
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Marine Corps Times | Corpsman turned to pot to deal with stress - 0 views

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    William Osborn
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Military Times | Special Report - Living With PTSD - 0 views

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    "This series uses the experiences of several troops suffering from PTSD to delve into the biology of the disorder; substance abuse among victims; the stress that the disorder places on spouses and children; treatment options and availability; the specter of suicide among PTSD sufferers; what current research may mean for the future, and many other issues."
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The Guardian | Revealed: the hidden army in UK prisons - 0 views

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    "The number of former servicemen in prison or on probation or parole is now more than double the total British deployment in Afghanistan, according to a new survey. An estimated 20,000 veterans are in the criminal justice system, with 8,500 behind bars, almost one in 10 of the prison population. The proportion of those in prison who are veterans has risen by more than 30% in the last five years."
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