Health News: PTSD Risk Vets

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“It’s pretty clear that people coming in with reduced mental capacity are more likely to develop PTSD after combat,” Young said. “One of the major conditions that brings down the mental health score of individuals is depression. Our hypothesis is that depression and PTSD have a commonality of a brain anatomical variant.”

And, he said, “it is relatively hard to disentangle poor mental health from poor physical health. People who have depression are likely to have poor physical health as well. They are less disposed to take proper care of themselves.”

“Actually, the scores of these veterans show that they are considerably healthier than we see in the normative scores [those of the population at large],” Dohrenwend said.

“Answers on a questionnaire are far from optimal, and they do not have good data on exposure,” he said. “So is this enough to base policy on? It probably isn’t, but it certainly is enough to follow up with a more intensive investigation of the lowest 15 percent.” Via

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