The war is also taking a psychological toll on thousands of lone soldiers, most of whom need mental health support. By DR. ITAI GAL 06/12/2024 Viral statistics about Nova survivors’ suicides are unsubstantiated, but survivors face a crisis “It’s in the government’s interest to keep th...
Statistics show that PTSD is relatively common. In any given year, up to 3.6% of Americans may have PTSD. The diagnosis of PTSD was developed by studying soldiers who had returned from war, and it was originally referred to as the "soldier's heart" (American Civil War) and later as "s...
Genomic data and ratings of PTSD were provided by U.S. Army soldiers of European ancestry before and after deployment to Afghanistan in 2012. Researchers modeled PTSD trajectories among 4,353 participants who provided complete post-deployment data. The investigative team used models to test for inde...
This is of particular concern for some researchers who are studying soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. With brain injuries regarded as the "signature wound" of the Iraq war, and most of these injuries coming as the result of a traumatic experience like the explosion of a roadside bo...
Defending a nation isn’t easy on the body or the mind. After coming home from battle, many of our soldiers must fight another war for their health whether they remain in service or not.
and the sense of being constantly on guard. Some studies suggest that 20 percent or more of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from PTSD; however, most researchers acknowledge that the stigma of mental illness, among other factors, makes accurate PTSD statistics difficult to obtain...
(rg = 0.62), summary statistics from PGC MDD18, as well as MDD plus BPD and SCZ, were included in the analyses. Using a recently implemented method applicable to external GWAS summary data (mtCOJO24) to approximate an analysis where these traits are regressed out, we found that ...
These items were endorsed less frequently and with less intensity in this sample. Barring one item—“believing that you deserved what happened because you are a woman,”—the idioms of distress scale retained good reliability by including the remaining skewed items. Table 4 Descriptive statistics,...
Using the empirical Bayes method in the R package limma54, moderated t-statistics were calculated for each CpG site, converted first into one-sided p-values then converted into z-scores to account for direction of effects. Meta-analysis across cohorts was performed by weighting each cohorts’ z...
‘shell shock’ in soldiers returning from World War I argued over whether soldiers who succumbed to the stressors of war were ‘moral invalids’ or whether such breakdowns could occur in any man who was ‘buried in a trench or saw his friend’s brains scattered before him’.4This ...