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  • Aquatic therapy helps Veterans overcome physical and cognitive challenges

    Aquatic therapy helps Veterans overcome physical and cognitive challenges

    Aquatic therapy helps Veterans overcome physical and cognitive challenges. Sixty-minute sessions are offered for patients in a heated swimming pool at Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville Florida.

  • PTSD training at VA: The gold standard of care

    PTSD training at VA: The gold standard of care

    VA trains more psychology profession trainees than any health care system in the nation. The nation’s leading provider of treatments for PTSD, VA offers hope of healing for the silent wounds of war.

  • CogSMART program improves Veterans’ cognitive functions

    CogSMART program improves Veterans’ cognitive functions

    Memory, problem-solving skills and attention to detail can all play [...]

  • VHA “Crash Cart” training program achieves prestigious placing in international competition

    VHA “Crash Cart” training program achieves prestigious placing in international competition

    A crash cart is a set of drawers on wheels [...]

  • Can you retrain your brain?

    Can you retrain your brain?

    VA researchers are studying many different cognitive training programs to determine which programs are best for which Veterans and why.

  • Sensory machine a big hit on memory care floor

    Sensory machine a big hit on memory care floor

    A therapeutic sensory device at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System’s Community Living Center uses lights and sounds to either stimulate or calm Veterans. Nurses report it helps with dementia population.

  • Focus on Veterans’ vision: A glance at innovative vision research underway in Atlanta

    Focus on Veterans’ vision: A glance at innovative vision research underway in Atlanta

    At the Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation, based at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, VA is pursuing a number of innovative projects aimed at finding solutions to Veterans’ vision problems.

  • Take a journey with PAWS

    Take a journey with PAWS

    Tara Pipia, a Veteran of the Army National Guard, discovered the PAWS pilot program and found purpose and connection.

  • The history of addiction treatment at VA: Part 3

    The history of addiction treatment at VA: Part 3

    Post-Vietnam VHA hospitals introduced new treatments for addiction, addressing the challenges faced by Veterans.

  • VA Research Wrap Up: New findings on suicide prevention, blast exposure, and cancer

    VA Research Wrap Up: New findings on suicide prevention, blast exposure, and cancer

    VA’s Office of Research and Development recently published three News Briefs highlighting research finding on suicide prevention, blast exposure and a potential new lymphoma treatment.

  • Veterans earn, learn and grow in the garden

    Veterans earn, learn and grow in the garden

    The Veterans Garden in West LA is reviving with community support, offering job training and therapeutic benefits to Veterans, showcasing food as medicine.

  • VA Research Wrap Up: New findings on caregivers, Alzheimer’s disease, and toxic exposure

    VA Research Wrap Up: New findings on caregivers, Alzheimer’s disease, and toxic exposure

    This week, VA's Office of Research and Development published three News Briefs highlighting research advances for Veterans in caregiver training, Alzheimer's disease and toxic exposure.

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Last updated October 27, 2021

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