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Dr. Kara Harmon’s goal is for veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to have something much better to do than come see her and her team every week. Harmon manages the Grand Junction Veterans Affairs Hospital’s Center for Post Traumatic Growth, a clinical team that helps veterans reduce PTSD symptoms and increase functionality, which started work about a year ago. Harmon, a psychologist, said since then the V.A. has been able to serve about seven times more veterans than they could previously. Dozens of veterans are now able to access PTSD treatments within weeks of s...

Be a medical evaluation to make sure there are no other issues. if you're asking about kind of what functions we think about for a patient overall, those are some of them. other things we want to think about are facility with speech, how clear somebody's comprehensive is, motor facility. are they able to walk? cognitive processing becomes important at some point. calculations and so on, so there's a host of neurological functions we will be thinking about. >> we will be checking in with our elizabeth cohen live there for us in houston. now to the snowstorm that's snarling traffic this friday...