When does the need of a single person outweigh the needs of the many? What if that single person is a soldier and those who …

We woke up to the news that fifty people died in a horrible plane crash last night. Grief grips my community here in Western New …

A harbinger of things to come? Likely. The U.S. Army reported yesterday that the suicide rate rose to 20.2 per 100,000 people in 2008, up …

Yesterday the New York Times wrote that the …

Imagine an inoculation that a soldier could take within an …

Although the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs concluded in 2004 that Gulf War Syndrome is a real medical illness (and not purely a psychological one), …

I’m not sure if this is a good thing or bad thing, but the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — the agency responsible for the …

Kids get exposed to all sorts of traumatic events in their young lives and for most, they can escape from serious emotional harm. One way …

This brief interview with MIT neurobiologist Matt Wilson, posted on the TIME website a few days ago, is an interesting addition to a long-standing …

Before someone is diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), they are often diagnosed with a disorder called acute stress disorder. Why? Because PTSD …

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

During the Vietnam war, the U.S. armed forces learned quite a few lessons about …

A new study in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology suggests that venting — or letting off steam — about something horrible that happens …