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OSU News
For years, Paula Walters had no idea why she was forgetting things, losing control of her emotions, struggling to concentrate and facing other unexplained and troubling problems, including fainting spells. She was so distressed that she attempted suicide.
Walters, who survived strangulation at the hands of an ex-boyfriend in 2006, said she now understands that all of those things stem from brain injury.
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The Guardian
Sexual violence is on the increase both inside and outside of wartime contexts and women remain the primary victims, warns new research.
In their report, researchers from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project analyzed data gathered from 400 recorded sexual violence events that occurred between January 2018 and June 2019.
They found an overall increase in reported events where the offender directly targeted women and girls; in only five percent of cases were the victims male.
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NYU
According to a first-of-its-kind study, cities with a higher incidence of a certain kind of racist tweets reported more actual hate crimes related to race, ethnicity, and national origin. A New York University research team analyzed the location and linguistic features of 532 million tweets published between 2011 and 2016. They trained a machine learning model — one form of artificial intelligence — to identify and analyze two types of tweets: those that are targeted — directly espousing discriminatory views — and those that are self-narrative — describing or commenting upon discriminatory remarks or acts.
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European Academy of Neurology via Medical Xpress
Stress of surviving the Holocaust has shown a lifelong and lasting negative impact on survivors' brain structure, as well as potentially impacting their offspring and grandchildren, a new study shows. The novel research, presented at the 5th European Academy of Neurology Congress, found that surviving the Holocaust had a life-long psychological and biological effect with grey matter reduction affecting the parts of their brain responsible for stress response, memory, motivation, emotion, learning, and behavior.
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Military.com
The VA has teamed up with the Defense Department and thousands of veteran volunteers on what could be breakthrough research to get at the root causes of post-traumatic stress disorder and open up paths to new methods of treatment, according to VA officials.
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HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report
Young children are far more likely to suffer abuse-related injuries when left in the care of a man, versus a woman. And those injuries are likely to be more severe, a new study finds.
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The Wall Street Journal
The U.S. Indian Health Service has overhauled sex-abuse reporting practices at a troubled North Carolina substance-abuse treatment center the agency runs after allegations its managers mishandled a 2016 incident.
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Earth.com
A new study led by Lancaster University has revealed that bystanders will intervene to help victims of public fights more than 90 percent of the time. The research contradicts the perception of a modern society where witnesses ignore aggression and violence and fail to get involved.
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CNN
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, known as ACIP, voted unanimously to recommend HPV vaccines for both boys and girls and men and women through age 26. Previously the CDC recommended that teen girls and young women who had not been adequately vaccinated receive the human papillomavirus vaccine through age 26, but the recommendation for teen boys and young men only went through age 21. The CDC's recommendation that children start receiving two doses of the HPV vaccine around 11 or 12 years old has not changed.
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