Just like nature and nurture shape up our physical and mental faculties, these two factors also seem to determine our response to stress. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD has been shown to have a genetic and environmental connection. A...

For millions, especially veterns of war, P.T.S.D. may be their final straw. Research has directly linked P.T.S.D. to heart disease and premature death.

Instablogs reported yesterday that the U.S. Army thinks it has a crisis on its hands. 115 soldiers committed suicide last year, up nearly 13% from the year before. With just over 500,000 soliders in the U.S. all-volunteer army, that works out to...

Children are always the innocent victims of war. The Israeli attacks on the Palestinians in the occupied territories have rendered a large number of Palestinian children victims of mental ill-health. According to an Israeli human...

Stress may play havoc with the life of a child. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may result if a kid undergoes physical, emotional or sexual abuse or witness violence even at home. Findings are based on the study of 15 children, 7 to 13...

Stress has always been linked to poor health but perhaps this is for the first time that any study has come out uncovering negative effects of stress on kids’ brain so comprehensibly. In this new study by the U.S. scientists, it was found...

In the United States, the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy reigns supreme and sexual assault is a normal way of life for many women officers. The military does not adhere to rape laws, which makes reporting one’s sexual...

If you find symptoms of post-traumatic stress, which include a tendency to startle at loud noises, nightmares and flashbacks then your chances of suffering from heart attacks and fatal coronary heart disease are quite higher. For the first time, a...

Heart patients and patients of other medical complications might be affected from Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The August issue of the Harvard Heart Letter, has come out with the research saying this. The earlier conception was that only...