Baby Blues, Sugar Grumps, Cannibal Writers, & Other Reading
T. Delene Beeland’s essay on post-baby depression is among of the best such I’ve read. I judged myself against other mothers. It seemed everyone cared fo...
Tag: PTSD
The PTSD Trap (NC Moving Party Track 4)
Below find #4 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, posted as I moved the blog her...
Is PTSD A Product of War, or Of Our Times?
How long has PTSD been around? Is the response to trauma outlined in our current PTSD diagnosis something that has long happened to a subset of people facing tr...
The PTSD Trap: Our Overdiagnosis of PTSD In Vets Is Enough to Make You Sick
Author’s note: This story originally appeared in Scientific American, April 2009. As the suggestion of U.S. Army medical student Petulant Skeptic (see bel...
Careful Erasing Those Memories, Says the Memory Master
Should we erase memories? Recently, in a recent, fascinating Wired feature, my friend and Wired colleague Jonah Lehrer looked at the looming possibility that we...
Tortoises Hump & Fingers Freeze As Open Science Catches Fire – January’s Best at Neuron Culture
Open science stole the show in January, with evolution, frostbite, and PTSD hysteria following. I’m throwing in tortoise sex for feel-good factor. Congres...
Our Sickening Rush to See PTSD – and What It Costs Vets
When Iraq-war veteran Benjamin Colton Barnes shot park ranger Margaret Anderson dead last week, the speculation started almost as soon as the gun reports faded:...
What is Mental Illness? A Peek Through the Murk
This guest post — a book review of Richard J. McNally’s What is Mental Illness — is by Jason Goldman, a University of Southern California graduate student...
NEJM study finds post-event morphine cuts combat PTSD rates in half
This is a pretty big deal if it holds up in future trials.
Senator Asks Pentagon To Review Antidepressants
This is a good example of how reflexive diagnoses, as PTSD has become for any combat veteran (and sometimes even prospective combat veterans -- i.e., troops pre...