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...while it is ongoing. Most of the participants were screened within three or four months of returning from battle, when memories--and any psychological wounds--were still fairly fresh. "One of our goals is to describe the onset of PTSD," says Lieut. Colonel Carl Castro, a Walter Reed psychologist, who led the study along with Dr. Charles Hoge. Many experts believe that early identification of symptoms and early intervention could help prevent the kind of massive psychological devastation seen in veterans of the Vietnam War. Some 30% of Vietnam vets eventually suffered PTSD--a grab bag of psychological effects that...
...prisoners of war by U.S. soldiers and interrogators continue to emerge [May 17], they fit into a pattern of abuse shown in reports from Afghanistan and Guantánamo. Such a consistent approach can only be explained by direction from the top, not by anarchy from below. As a psychologist, I can state that some of the methods are well-known psychological procedures of behavior control. The attempt by the Bush Administration to blame individual soldiers for these abuses is ridiculous. Guido F. Gebauer Niedersachsen, Germany...
According to a report by Bridgewater State forensic psychologist David Holtzen, soon after his arrest, Cicero was diagnosed by staff at Cambridge Hospital with delirium, a condition involving “confusion, disorientation, agitation, and psychotic symptoms...
...Brownell are equally worried about what's missing from the landscape: sidewalks and bike paths; neighborhoods with safe, accessible parks and stores you can walk to; daily physical-education classes in public schools; and staircases in office buildings. "We've created environments that are hostile to physical activity," says psychologist James Sallis, director of the Active Living Research Program at San Diego State University...
...National Weight Control Registry, a study of men and women who have lost at least 30 lbs. and kept them off for at least a year. The registry was founded in 1993 by James Hill, an obesity researcher at the University of Colorado, and Rena Wing, a behavioral psychologist at Brown University, and although it's a self-selected group of self-described "successful losers," it has taught researchers quite a bit about how to achieve long-term weight loss. Today there are 5,000 Americans listed in the registry, and their stories are an inspiration to anyone...