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Conducts research on health care quality, costs, outcomes, and patient safety. Supported a study on telepsychiatry (therapy with a psychiatrist via videoconferencing), which has proved helpful to Veterans suffering from combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), who live in rural or underserved areas.
Find information on this initiative to improve Veteran care by optimizing the relationships between private, public and non-profit organizations.
Improves the outcome of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) by developing best practice guidelines, conducting clinical research and educating medical personnel. Includes specific research and resources on TBI in the Military.
Lists resources and provides research relating to trauma and coping with traumatic events such as trauma training and education, terrorism preparedness and trauma consultations. The Center is a partner to the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury. Read the Center's military-related fact sheets.
Download a newsletter published by the National Center for PTSD that provides summaries of clinically relevant research publications including links to the full article or abstract.
Learn about research programs addressing breast, prostate and ovarian cancers; Gulf War Illness; traumatic brain injury (TBI); military health; and other areas of medical research.
Addresses the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and mitigation of deployment-related injuries and psychological health concerns of deployed military personnel.
Learn about a federal grant program administered by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau to help states enhance access to comprehensive and coordinated community-based services for individuals with TBI and their families.
Shares information to safeguard the health and well-being of Service Members and their families, and to sustain medical and rehabilitative care to the sick and injured anywhere in the world.
Recommends changes that would help improve the military health care services being provided to members of the Armed Forces, retirees and their families.
Conducts quality medical research and education programs, and administers education endowment funds for the U.S. military community.
Read a report from the Committee on Gulf War and Health about the long-term consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
Read the Institute of Medicine's assessment on the possible long-term health outcomes of traumatic brain injury (TBI)that details outcomes that might be associated with mild, moderate, and severe injuries including neurologic, endocrine, psychologic outcomes, in addition to problems with social functioning.
Watch several online videos about the challanges Veterans and Service Members face returning from war zones, and their unique healthcare needs.
Focuses on improving research, clinical care and education to help those with mental illness. Veterans may be eligible to participate in clinical research projects.
Access the MHS monthly news e-bulletin with information on upcoming events and activities, the latest medical research and relevant health care news. Subscribe here.
Link to national and world health news from DoD's Military Health System.
Provides biomedical solutions that protect soldiers and enhance their performance in operational and training environments that include multiple stressors. MOMRP is a biomedical research program with a problem-solving orientation and a human physiology research focus.
Information and statistics on the health care of military personnel and Veterans.
Describes the less visible psychological and neurological injuries associated with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or traumatic brain injury (TBI). Download a report titled Invisible Wounds: Serving Service Members and Veterans with PTSD and TBI.
Call 1-866-627-6464 to participate in one of several research studies underway relating to PTSD.
Funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will support NIMH in the completion of a project to evaluate the effectiveness of a new training program for telephone crisis counselors at suicide hotline centers. Individuals seeking help can dial 1-800-273-TALK (8255) 24 hours a day.
Provides information, education and training, and technical assistance designed to increase the use of evidence-based programs and quality practices with military families.
Learn about the VA/DoD guidelines for the treatment of PTSD and download a pocket guide on acute stress disorder.
Find information from the National Institute of Mental Health on research efforts related to risk factors for PTSD.
Provides research funding to complement ongoing DoD efforts to ensure the health and readiness of our military forces and to support the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury in its efforts to advance and spread PH/TBI knowledge, enhance clinical and management approaches and facilitate other vital services to best serve the needs of warrior families impacted by PH problems and/or TBI.
Access an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences due to exposure to traumatic events produced by the National Center for PTSD.
Identifies the challenges of those who have been injured and works with teams of university students and faculty to solve these challenges so individuals with disabilities can live, work and play unassisted.
RESPECT-Mil is a treatment model designed by the United States Department of Defenses Deployment Health Clinical Center (DHCC) to screen, assess and treat active duty Soldiers with depression and/or PTSD.
Works to increase awareness and improve treatments for RLS.
An initiative of the American Psychoanalytic Association that adds a psychoanalytic voice to the mental health crisis among soldiers, Veterans and their families. Includes information on what psychoanalysts are doing and upcoming events.
Research study examining links between mental trauma and physical disease among Veterans of the Civil War and how the findings could apply to today's Veterans.
Provides clinical services to Service Members, Veterans, families, and caregivers who are dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, or other difficulties related to stressful military or civilian experiences. Learn more about Summa Health System's programs.
Performs medical reconnaissance and special operations to address critical gaps that are underrepresented in DoD medical research programs.
Find information and training modules for military and civilian psychologists, psychology interns/residents and other behavioral health professionals to provide high quality deployment-related behavioral health services to military personnel and their families.
Commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Women's Bureau (WB) as one of its many efforts to help women veterans who are experiencing homelessness find jobs and successfully reintegrate back to civilian life.
Access a learning, collaboration and benchmarking tool for grantees and others affiliated with the Federal Traumatic Brain Injury Program.
Provides a database of links to find additional data on topics including USACHPPM services and resources, common diseases, health tips and environmental safety, among others.
Offers information on military treatment facilities and research centers worldwide. Find a treatment facility near you.
Conducts research intended primarily to improve the health care of Veterans. Areas covered include post traumatic stress disorder; polytrauma and blast-related injuries and other unique health issues facing Veterans of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom; and substance use disorders (including tobacco).
Conducts research, education and training on trauma and PTSD for Veterans and other organizations.
Offers a course series developed by the Employee Education System to enhance clinician knowledge about war-related health outcomes and concerns. Includes courses on Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure, Caring for War Wounded, A Guide to Gulf War Veterans' Health, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Implications for Primary Care, Traumatic Brain Injury and more.
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