The author says that how institutions respond in the days and weeks after such events can shape mental-health outcomes for months or years to come.

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After traumatic brain injury (TBI), some patients may recover completely, while others retain severe disabilities.

On this Veterans Day comes a sobering reminder: veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have almost double the risk of developing some type of dementia, according to the ...

Your brain isn’t broken after trauma. It’s running a survival superpower. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Traumatic events actually cause distinct behaviors in the brain. Recalling ...

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be linked to accelerated brain aging among World Trade Center (WTC) responders ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ian H. Stanley, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (THE CONVERSATION) The ...