How does PTSD differ in the short term versus the long term? Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a mental health condition that develops following exposure to a life-threatening event such as ...

WOODHAVEN, Mich. -- A Michigan city is using a unique way to warn its citizens about the dangers of 4th of July fireworks around veterans suffering from Post ...

A new study in Biological Psychiatry has linked signs of heightened arousal and reactivity -- a core symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- to overactivity of the locus coeruleus (LC), a ...

A new analysis of blood samples from patients with posttraumatic stress disorder reveals that the condition may be driven by ...

On July 7, 2016, a 25-year-old Army reservist fatally shot five Dallas officers as they escorted protesters during a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown. But that night wasn’t the first time Micah ...

When we think of dogs, we often think of them as creatures leading perfect, carefree lives. They have no bills to pay, they’re never stuck driving in traffic jams, and they have no deadlines to meet.

The thousands of firefighters and other first responders on the front lines of the fires that are raging in the Los Angeles ...

(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 ...