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Marine Who Campaigned for Veterans Takes His Own Life

Like the Marine he was, Clay Hunt launched a front-line assault against the demons he brought home from Iraq and Afghanistan. The 28-year-old Texan, who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, appeared in a suicide prevention campaign encouraging returning veterans to reach out for help. He went to Washington, D.C.,...

Scientists Study Woman With No Fears

(Dec. 19) -- Is there anything you're not afraid of? Imagine what it must be like to never experience fear of any kind. A woman with a rare genetic disorder, Urbach-Wiethe disease, isn't frightened by anything – haunted houses, spiders, snakes, movie monsters, death threats, being attacked or robbed, the Live...

Army Plans 'Virtual Afghanistan' to Help Treat PTSD

ORLANDO, Fla. (Dec. 2) -- An Army-funded institute that has used virtual reality to help treat traumatized veterans of the war in Iraq is now moving to build an even more detailed virtual world of Afghanistan. The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, which conducted pioneering work...

Study: Playing Tetris Can Help Reduce Flashbacks

LONDON (Nov. 11) -- Picture the scene: You're lying in a hospital bed after being pulled out of a terrifying car crash. The doctors haven't found any physical injuries, but before you're allowed to leave, they hand you a Game Boy and insist you play Tetris for 10 minutes. That might sound a little unreasonable (you're...

Modern Soldiers, Ancient Medicines

(Nov. 11) -- It's late afternoon on the Colorado plains, and the sun is disappearing behind the ridge of mountains to the west of us, but all I can see is darkness. I'm in a traditional Lakota sweat lodge, a 15-foot-wide dome of willow branches covered in thick moving blankets and canvas. Inside the tiny lodge, 20 of us...