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Brain connectivity is lower in adults with PTSD or a history of sexual abuse
Medical University of South Carolina via EurekAlert!
A study conducted at the Medical University of South Carolina in adults with a history of childhood maltreatment showed that two groups – those with a history of sexual abuse and those with posttraumatic stress disorder – had reduced brain connectivity in the attention systems known as the ventral and dorsal attention network. No such reduction was seen in adults with a history of physical abuse, nor in those who did not develop PTSD. The team, which was led by MUSC neuroscientist Jane Joseph, Ph.D., also showed that connectivity in the VAN-DAN systems increased after treatment with oxytocin, a hormone associated with social affiliations and the stress response. The team’s findings are published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.
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.FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES
Join Us for Some Forensic Nurses Week Fun!
November 12, 8:00-9:30 PM EST
You're invited to an epic, escape room style competition. IAFN is partnering with The Escape Game to provide a little excitement and adventure from the comfort of your own home. Participants will collaborate with team members to uncover the true identity of an internationally infamous art thief. The first team to solve the mystery WINS a $100 Amazon gift card (1 per team member)! Register Today.
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2021 Forensic Nurses Week Events Schedule
Forensic Nursing Career Panel on Mass Casualties/Disaster Relief/Trauma
Monday, Nov. 8, 2:00-3:00 PM EST
Is Forensic Nursing For You?
Monday, Nov. 8, 3:00-4:00 PM EST
The Various Jobs of a Forensic Nurse
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 4:00-6:00 PM EST
Past, Present, and Future of Forensic Nursing
Thursday, Nov. 11, 3:00-4:00 PM EST
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Last Call - SANE Certification Renewal
If you last certified in 2018, this is your year to renew! Not sure when you last certified? Click to search our SANE-A or SANE-P databases. Late renewal applications are being accepted until November 15 at 11:59 PM ET.
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Support the IAFN Foundation
The IAFN Foundation will be hosting a silent auction during this year’s IAFN2021 Annual Conference. The IAFN Foundation's silent auction opens November 1 for bids through November 19. Learn more.
If you are interested in being a part of the Foundation, the call for 2022 Foundation Board Members is now open!
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SAFEta Webinars
Peer-to-Peer Information - Escaping Education: Educating non-SANE ED RNs to Care for Sexual Assault Patients Using an Escape Room Activity
November 4, 2:00-3:30 PM EST
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
Why accounts of Philadelphia train passengers not intervening in a rape spread
The Guardian
The news was horrifying, a parable of inhumanity so grim that it was destined to go viral.
Two weeks ago, police said that passengers on Philadelphia’s elevated train watched a man rape a woman and did not intervene – and that some riders might have even recorded the Oct. 13 attack with their cellphones. These onlookers did not call for help during the attack. The only person who dialed 911 was an off-duty transit worker, police alleged. But, it now seems, the story was not entirely accurate. In fact, the story is far more complex, revealing not only a brutal crime, but how a mistaken narrative ran wild in the press. At the same time, the appalling rape does reveal social problems in America, but they center around crime, the pandemic and policing, not the baleful influence of social media.
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US gun violence rose 30% during the pandemic, and families were in the line of fire
ScienceAlert
2020 was one of the deadliest years on record in the United States. Not only has COVID-19 claimed the lives of more than 700,000 Americans, but gun violence has also hit a two-decade historical high. It's hard to say with any certainty how these two crises are connected, but researchers suspect the pandemic and stay-at-home measures created a culture of stress, increased substance abuse, domestic violence, a lack of social interaction, and greater access to firearms that may have culminated in more violent crime and firearm-related suicides.
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Backers of a Texas law that restricts abortion after rape say 'just arrest more rapists.' Will that work?
NBC News
Gov. Greg Abbott and other defenders of a new Texas law that bans abortion after about six weeks — even in cases of rape and incest — have vowed to crack down on sexual assault to reduce the need for abortions. Abbott said last month, soon after the law known as SB 8 went into effect, that he would "eliminate all rapists."
An NBC News review of state and FBI data, however, indicates that the clearance rate for rapes in Texas has been dropping year to year and that Texas' clearance rate now lags behind the national average by almost a third.
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Before Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial, a debate over terms like 'victim'
MSN
A judge’s decision that the word “victim” generally could not be used in court to refer to the people shot by Kyle Rittenhouse after protests in Kenosha, WI, last year drew widespread attention and outrage this week. But legal experts say that determining who should be considered a victim — in a case that hinges on Mr. Rittenhouse’s assertion of self-defense — is at the center of what jurors must decide in his trial, expected to begin next week.
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Syphilis is resurging in the US, a sign of public health's funding crisis
NPR
In the United States, more than 129,800 syphilis cases were recorded in 2019, double the case count of five years prior. In the same time period, cases of congenital syphilis quadrupled: 1,870 babies were born with the disease; 128 died. Case counts from 2020 are still being finalized, but the CDC has said that reported cases of congenital syphilis have already exceeded the prior year. Black, Hispanic and Native American babies are disproportionately at risk.
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Young people more likely to experience sexual abuse during curfew, survey finds
DutchNews
Young people were more vulnerable to sexual abuse during the coronavirus curfew last winter, new research has found. The study by sexual health centre Rutgers and STD research group SOA Aids Nederland found that eight percent of women aged 16 to 24 and three percent of men had had unwanted sexual relations while the 9 PM curfew was in force in the Netherlands from February to April this year. After the curfew was lifted the figures fell to five and one percent respectively.
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Study: Importance of harm and abuse education for primary school children
University of Central Lancashire via Medical Xpress
A new national evaluation of the NSPCC's Speak Out Stay Safe program, involving 3,297 primary school children across the UK, has found that both children and school staff benefited from the education it provided on different forms of harm, highlighting the need for continued education in this area.
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These college students were tired of being catcalled. So they covered their campus with stories
The Lily
Janay Kingsberry
October 27, 2021
One afternoon in September, after finishing classes for the day, Morgan Descoteau, 20, walked out of a Target at the edge of the University of Maryland at College Park campus.
As she reached the entrance of her apartment building, she said, a group of men in a car jeered at her: “Hey, where you going? … Why are you out here by yourself looking so fine like that?”
Caught off guard, Descoteau rolled her eyes and swiftly ducked into her building. “I was definitely shaken up … and I felt gross after it,” she said. “But unfortunately this is something that happens relatively frequently, so you sort of become desensitized to it.”
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