Linda Hurtado | Tampa Tribune Army Green Beret Brian Anderson came back from deployment in Afghanistan with images that haunted him. Visions of eight-hour fire fights and the death of two friends left him with odd and overwhelming symptoms. “I thought they were blood pressure issues, diabetes or something like that,” he said. “When I went in to be checked …
PTSD therapy at USF gets boost from unlikely source
Howard Altman | The Tampa Tribune Back in the late 1990s, country music comedian and radio personality Cledus T. Judd was returning to Orlando from a tour with Kenny Chesney when his flight hit such extreme turbulence that he was thrown out of his seat and he broke his nose, leaving him a bloody mess. Judd, a morning personality on …
Could eye movements be key to PTSD treatment?
By HOWARD ALTMAN | The Tampa Tribune Can post traumatic stress disorder, suffered by one in five service members coming home from Afghanistan and Iraq and a contributing factor in suicides, homicides and drug addiction, be treated with the wave of a few fingers? Researchers from the University of South Florida’s College of Nursing believe it can. And they are …
On Armed Services Day, Help For Those Considering Suicide
Command Post Tampa Blog | Tampa Bay Online There is a unique study about to launch at USF into whether a novel technique, called Accelerated Resolution Therapy, can treat PTSD in as little as one session. Read Article>>>