Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars showed a 50 percent improvement in their post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following eight weeks of practicing meditation, researchers report in this month's issue of Military Medicine.
Researchers, led by Dr. Norman Rosenthal, clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown UniversityMedical School, studied five veterans who had engaged in moderate or heavy moderate combat for 10 months to two years in Iraq and/or Afghanistan.
The veterans were taught the Transcendental Meditation technique and then evaluated mainly according to the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), a tool used to diagnose and assess PTSD in trauma survivors.
By Ginger Chan
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