Welcome...and initial guidelines...

This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

You should have received an email from me inviting you to become a contributor to this blog. The email was sent Monday afternoon to your official Drexel email address.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The Mental Health of our Troops

I just saw this interesting article on the front page of MSN, so I thought I'd share it here for anyone interested. A new study came out recently on the mental health of US troops, the "first large-scale, private assessment of its kind." It found that approximately 300,000 US troops that served in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from depression or post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and only about half of them have sought treatment. About 320,000 have had brain injuries. There is also a panel next to the article that describes the symptoms of PTSD and those of traumatic brain injury.

Here is the link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24183188&GT1=43001

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