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Baby Blues, Sugar Grumps, Cannibal Writers, & Other Reading

Posted on May 21, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  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...

Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/Medicine

The PTSD Trap (NC Moving Party Track 4)

Posted on June 2, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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...

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Is PTSD A Product of War, or Of Our Times?

Posted on August 12, 2012 by David Dobbs / 10 Comments

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...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Psychiatry/Published elsewhere

The PTSD Trap: Our Overdiagnosis of PTSD In Vets Is Enough to Make You Sick

Posted on March 22, 2012 by David Dobbs / 36 Comments

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...

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Careful Erasing Those Memories, Says the Memory Master

Posted on March 6, 2012 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

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...

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Tortoises Hump & Fingers Freeze As Open Science Catches Fire – January’s Best at Neuron Culture

Posted on February 1, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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...

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Our Sickening Rush to See PTSD – and What It Costs Vets

Posted on January 6, 2012 by David Dobbs / 5 Comments

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:...

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What is Mental Illness? A Peek Through the Murk

Posted on May 18, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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...

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NEJM study finds post-event morphine cuts combat PTSD rates in half

Posted on January 14, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This is a pretty big deal if it holds up in future trials.

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Senator Asks Pentagon To Review Antidepressants

Posted on November 12, 2009 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

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...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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