Thursday, June 27 is National Post Traumatic Stress Awareness Day. The Department of Veterans Affairs also makes it PTSD Screening Day to let veterans know treatments are available. There is no time ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is funding a psychedelic-assisted therapy study for veterans with PTSD and alcohol use disorder. Researchers from Yale University and Brown University will ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs will launch its first clinical study since the 1960s into the effectiveness of psychedelic drugs as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, the ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun a trial of the PTSD Coach app to test whether the app is more successful with clinical support. The app is not new—it launched in April 2011. It offers a ...

The day Harvard-educated professor Dr. Amy Bishop pulled a gun out of her purse and shot her colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, she aimed first at the person on her left. Dr.

A drug prescribed to veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder nightmares has been recalled for high traces of a chemical that could be cancerous. Food and Drug Administration recalled ...

"No other institution works on PTSD, like the VA is," said Dr. Amin Zand Vakili, one of the many mental health researchers at the Providence VA. "We have a very good understanding of what diabetes is, ...

BIG SPRING, Texas — When most people think of veterans with PTSD, the stereotype they picture is that it’s more common in older veterans, but the West Texas VA in Big Spring said that’s just not the ...

When the last American combat troops left Vietnam in January 1973, over 700,000 veterans needed psychological treatment for what no one knew how to diagnose. The VA couldn't help them because ...

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 ...