Anxiety is a common response to stress, but for those dealing with anxiety disorders, it can significantly impact daily life. Now, a groundbreaking rat study has unveiled a significant link between anxiety disorders and a brain receptor known as Tachykinin receptor 3 (TACR3), as well as testosterone. Prof. Shira Knafo, head of the molecular cognitive […]
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Let’s face it, everyone is feeling the stress of the current war. The IDF has operated in Gaza with much success in shutting down and countering the terrorist threat. Thanks to our brave soldiers fighting in Gaza, there seems to be a reduction in the number of rocket attacks aimed at Israel. As the war […]
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Israel is confronting the most severe mental trauma wave since its founding, according to psychiatry experts. The mental health system is already inundated with unresolved requests for help. Waiting lists stretch for months, and health maintenance organizations (HMO) have been struggling to manage the escalating number of mental health cases, a volume never before encountered. […]
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The Israeli Trauma Coalition in collaboration with the On Life media organization has launched its “Life in the Shadow of War” project this week, aiming to help citizens cope during times of protracted war. Since the war began on October 7, the project will help citizens by publishing and distributing material to help citizens cope […]
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After October 7, All Israel has found itself in a condition of trauma. According to Dr. Eran Harary, a psychiatrist and a Senior Vice-President at Teva’s Global R&D, trauma can be described as a situation where you are exposed to an overwhelming event or series of events that your body and mind cannot comprehend or […]
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KIBBUTZ HAZOREA, Israel — Fifteen young men and women, seemingly oblivious to their surroundings and to each other, dance around a bucolic field, twisting their bodies to trance music blasting through their headphones. Beyond their earphones is silence, except for the constant rumble of fighter jets taking off from Ramat David air base in the […]
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A recently published study shows that the use of a psychoactive drug can lead to reducing military veterans’ symptoms of PTSD and traumatic brain injuries. For military veterans, many of the most painful wounds of war are invisible. Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) resulting from head trauma or blast explosions are a leading cause of post-traumatic […]
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The term “second generation” is very common in Israeli jargon, referring to the projection of the Holocaust disaster and the trauma experienced by its survivors into the psyche of the next generation. Unfortunately, in trauma-ridden Israel, this did not stop there. The foundational break of the Yom Kippur War created another “second generation,” and there […]
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Contrary to rumors and claims on social media and in the press, there has not been an increase in suicides by Israelis since the Hamas attack on October 7 and the subsequent war in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry and its National Suicide Prevention Council. In fact, the numbers have even decreased. Dr. Gilad […]
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An intricate link between the control of one’s automatic urges and between one’s psychological resilience and mood variations has been discovered in a Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) study on IDF soldiers in basic training. “Inhibitory control” (IC) is a basic executive function that involves the control of attention, behavior, thoughts, and emotions) by pausing […]
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