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U.S. Could See 2,000 Covid-19 Deaths Per Day by Christmas: Report

The U.S. could see 2,000 Americans dying per day by Christmas if strict new mitigation strategies aren’t adopted, according to warnings from doctors on the White House Coronavirus Task Force and a new report from CBS News. The alarming news comes as the U.S. reports 1,565 deaths from covid-19 on Tuesday alone, with hospitals across…

Health Matt Novak Nov 18

Facebook Reaches $52 Million Dollar Settlement With Its Hard-Hit Moderators

Finally, some good news for Facebook’s beleaguered moderator community. According to preliminary settlement records first uncovered by The Verge earlier today, the tech giant has agreed to pay a total of $52 million to its current and former content moderators to compensate them for the massive mental strain that comes with reviewing some of the…

Social Media Shoshana Wodinsky May 12

Rebecca Sugar Opens Up About How Healing from Trauma Shaped Steven Universe Future

After saving the Earth multiple times, learning the truth about his mother’s past, and bringing peace to the Gem homeworld, Steven Universe is finally being forced to confront the kinds of personal demons that he’s never really had the time to in the past. The experience is proving to be the most difficult challenge he’s…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 16

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MDMA Made Older Mice Start Socializing Like Teenagers

You might think of young brains as soft clay that can take on new shapes in response to various inputs. But as time passes, the clay hardens and is less workable—and like clay, older brains can be less likely to change in response to new situations. Scientists doing research in mice have realized this analogy…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 3

FDA Approves Large-Scale Clinical Trial for Ecstasy

Ecstasy isn’t only for ravers—a small series of clinical trials have demonstrated taking MDMA can be an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration granted permission for large-scale, Phase 3 clinical trials for MDMA, which is the next step in the process to get it approved as a prescription…

Tech News Eve Peyser Nov 29

This College Student Created An App To Help Veterans Combat Night Terrors

Tyler Skluzacek was inspired by the experiences of his father, an Iraq war veteran, to design the myBivy app. myBivy—the name is drawn from bivouac, a camp where soldiers can rest—tracks heartbeat and movement while asleep. Over time, the app gets to know its user’s sleep habits, and can prevent the onset of panic attacks…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern Oct 16

When Are You Going to Get Your Prescription MDMA?

Not long ago, the idea of walking up to a clerk behind a counter and getting a baggie of weed seemed ludicrous. Now, in states where recreational or medical marijuana is approved and regulated, it’s a routine, mundane part of life. Are psychedelics next? It may seem like a similar scenario isn’t far off for…

Health Cynthia McKelvey Sep 21

Finally, a Real-Life Memory-Erasing Technique for Humans

Get your Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind references ready, because scientists have just figured out a way to erase bad memories using—you guessed it—electroshock therapy. Get ready for on-demand forgetting. It’s a real thing now. A team of Dutch neuroscientists recently devised an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to “target and disrupt patients’ memory of a…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 23

Psychologists Propose Horrifying Solution to PTSD in Drone Operators

Drone operators often kill their targets from a continent away, but studies suggest that even thousands of miles of distance cannot mitigate war’s devastating psychological effects. But just wait until you hear how researchers propose preventing PTSD, alcohol abuse and thoughts of suicide in drone operators. Above: Flying a drone can feel like a deadly…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 28

DARPA’s Spending $70 Million on a Brain Chip for Mentally Ill Soldiers

Picture this: In the near future, ten percent of our veterans could be walking around with chips implanted in their brains. These aren’t intended for some I, Robot-style takeover, but rather to treat conditions like PTSD and substance abuse. Sound crazy? DARPA only deals in crazy. https://gizmodo.com/darpa-is-building-a-submarine-mothership-to-launch-dron-886014691 The Pentagon’s prodigal R&D lab just announced a…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Oct 25

Scientists Have Found the Gene That Helps Us Forget

You know that scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind when they’re scanning through Jim Carrey’s playdoh-faced head, looking for bad memories to erase? A bunch of eggheads from MIT just figured out how to do that for real! Sort of. In all seriousness, though, the discovery is poised to do a lot of…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 18

Cyber Therapist Can Spot PTSD by Creeping on Veterans’ Blogs

It takes a lot of experience and skill to diagnose a psychological disorder. If you’re a meager human, that is; computers have learned to do it reliably with nothing but an algorithm and mountains of data. https://gizmodo.com/new-cyber-therapists-can-diagnose-depression-using-kine-5992936 That’s the principle data analytics firm SentiMetrix is putting to use to spot PTSD in soldiers by reading…

Health Eric Limer Jun 5

Scientists Erase the Memories of Sleeping Mice

Researchers at Stanford claim they’ve figured out how to erase the traumatic memories of mice while they sleep bringing them one step closer to their goal of ending PTSD for humans. Apparently a prescription memory-eraser could even be on the way. Are we closer to an Eternal Sunshine moment than we think? The conventional treatment…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 17

Why do some traumatized people get PTSD while others don’t?

A fascinating new article by Virginia Hughes in Nature explores the most recent discoveries that neuroscientists have made about the mechanisms that cause post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. The story focuses in part on the story of one woman, a psychotherapist who was raped and then thrown off a bridge, and how she’s recovered from…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 16

Oxford Doctors Can Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder With… Tetris?

In recent years, the military’s top brass have funded some truly bizarre approaches – from neck injections to Reiki – in an effort to treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress afflicting today’s soldiers. Turns out, they could’ve just equipped troops with Game Boys. At least according to one research team out of Oxford University, who claim…

Health Katie Drummond - Wired May 1

The spooky TV movie that caused post-traumatic stress disorder

On Halloween 1992, years before The Blair Witch Project, the BBC aired Ghostwatch, which claimed to be a live on-air investigation of a real haunted house. In actuality, the movie was fiction, but it had a real, lasting effect: some children were diagnosed with PTSD after watching the film. “The program you are about to…

Movies Lauren Davis Apr 21

From “Irritable Heart” to “Shellshock”: How Post-Traumatic Stress Became a Disease

When people have suffered a violent or horrifying experience, the trauma can follow them around for years — and we call that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). From soldiers to accident victims to rape survivors, tons of people have found themselves haunted by their terrible experiences. But PTSD didn’t enter our vocabulary until 1980, when it…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 4

A Single Neck Injection Could Cure PTSD

What if doctors could cure post-traumatic stress disorder with a single injection to the neck? One Chicago-area doctor claims he can, and has finally convinced someone in the Pentagon to give the idea a shot. And Danger Room has learned that some in the Navy believe the approach might actually work. The freaky procedure is…

Tech News Katie Drummond - Wired Dec 13

Real-Life Inception: Army Looks to ‘Counteract Nightmares’ With Digital Dreams

A soldier tries to sleep. But he is not safe in his dreams. Jolted awake by a nightmare, the combat veteran fumbles in the dark for his 3-D glasses. He puts them on. Around him are the faces of people whom he trusts. They fight the darkness with him. The soldier’s re-lived this scene in…

Tech News Dawn Lim - Wired Oct 21

Another Benefit of Smoking Weed? It Might Be Able to Cure PTSD

There’s such a long list of awesome things about smoking weed that I’m starting to lose track of all the benefits. One thing I’m pretty sure I never heard of before though: marijuana might be able to cure post-traumatic stress disorder. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a serious psychological disease that can flip lives upside down.…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 22

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U.S. Could See 2,000 Covid-19 Deaths Per Day by Christmas: Report

Facebook Reaches $52 Million Dollar Settlement With Its Hard-Hit Moderators

Rebecca Sugar Opens Up About How Healing from Trauma Shaped Steven Universe Future

MDMA Made Older Mice Start Socializing Like Teenagers

FDA Approves Large-Scale Clinical Trial for Ecstasy

This College Student Created An App To Help Veterans Combat Night Terrors

When Are You Going to Get Your Prescription MDMA?

Finally, a Real-Life Memory-Erasing Technique for Humans

Psychologists Propose Horrifying Solution to PTSD in Drone Operators

DARPA’s Spending $70 Million on a Brain Chip for Mentally Ill Soldiers

Scientists Have Found the Gene That Helps Us Forget

Cyber Therapist Can Spot PTSD by Creeping on Veterans’ Blogs

Scientists Erase the Memories of Sleeping Mice

Why do some traumatized people get PTSD while others don’t?

Oxford Doctors Can Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder With… Tetris?

The spooky TV movie that caused post-traumatic stress disorder

From “Irritable Heart” to “Shellshock”: How Post-Traumatic Stress Became a Disease

A Single Neck Injection Could Cure PTSD

Real-Life Inception: Army Looks to ‘Counteract Nightmares’ With Digital Dreams

Another Benefit of Smoking Weed? It Might Be Able to Cure PTSD

All Hell Breaks Loose in a Tease of the End of ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2

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The ‘Super Mario Galaxy’ Movie Did Rosalina Dirty

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