A team of Penn State and University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine researchers is attempting to answer a question that has long puzzled experts: Why do some individuals suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after experiencing trauma, and others do not?
U.S Army veteran, poet and memoirist Brian Turner was the guest speaker at Penn State Altoona's PTSD awareness event, held March 14 on campus.
Steffany Fredman, assistant professor of human development and family studies, is leading treatment interventions for military personnel and veterans with PTSD and their families, with the goal of determining if the interventions are effective at treating PTSD and improving family relationships.
The inaugural Freedom 5K, the final event of Penn State’s Military Appreciation Week, will begin at 11 a.m. Nov. 12 at Gate B of the Bryce Jordan Center. The goal of the 5K is to raise funds and awareness for post-traumatic stress disorder among our nation’s veterans.
Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -- or Combat PTSD -- is a serious but poorly understood condition that affects hundreds of thousands of American military veterans. Along with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Clinical Depression, PTSD can be one of the most pervasive "invisible injuries" faced by veterans who have been wounded physically, psychologically, or both.
When it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), there is no shortage of casualties. Husbands, wives and children often suffer while the PTSD victim tries to combat the disorder. Families coping with PTSD do have prevention and intervention options, however. Amy Marshall, an associate professor of psychology at Penn State’s University Park campus, will discuss those methods when the Colloquium Series in Psychological Sciences and Human Behavior returns to Penn State Behrend March 16.
In his book “War after Death: On Violence and its Limits,” Steven Miller presents the theory that war is very different from the stories we tell about it. He argues that killing and death are often the narrative, but that there are still many other nonhuman casualties, including the fall of ecosystems and the loss of artworks, archives, personal property and intangible cultural traditions.
Miller will discuss this theory when he visits Penn State Behrend on Thursday, Nov. 5, for a special presentation. His talk, “Psychoanalysis, War, and the Literature of Brain Damage: Catherine Malabou and Oliver Sacks,” begins at 4:30 p.m. in Metzgar Center, and is free and open to the public.
Penn State researchers are studying leisure in the lives of married Iraq and Afghanistan veterans as a first step to ultimately designing an intervention program for veterans returning home after deployment.
