Someone who didn’t witness a traumatic event or have a loved one who lived through it can’t be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under the textbook definition of the mental malady.

Mere days after the truck attack in Manhattan that killed eight people on Halloween, a man opened fire inside a church in Texas, killing 26 congregants. How do we reckon with these senseless acts of violence? In these three books, writers explore post-traumatic stress disorder and how others have healed after past national tragedies.

Afraid of taking on massive debt, a growing number of college students are turning to an unconventional source to pay for school: sugar daddies.

“I think last night was a great night for Democrats, and we’re going to carry that forward into next year,” Donna West, chairperson of the Clark County Democratic Party, told me Wednesday, the day after her party swept some high-profile off-year elections nationwide.

One year after the 2016 election, President Donald Trump’s presidency has succeeded in energizing both Republicans and Democrats.

The explosion ripped through the Las Vegas motel, decapitating people and sending body parts flying, with one woman’s leg embedded in a wall.

A researcher at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas is hoping to use the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on October 1st to study whether certain personality types may be more vulnerable to trauma.

Arnie DeGeorge sat weeping in an airport bar in Toronto as a television broadcast images from his hometown of Las Vegas.

A new initiative looks to reduce gender and minority gaps in STEM classrooms. Rachael Robnett, a University of Nevada-Las Vegas psychology professor, discussed two major barriers preventing women and other underrepresented minorities from succeeding in STEM.

Henderson Mayor Debra March is making good on her promise to make city operations more open and accessible.

Debra L. Martin spoke at the University of Massachusetts Commonwealth Honors College on Oct. 23 to present a lecture on biocultural violence.

Dustin J. Hines, professor of psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, notes that not everyone is an ideal candidate for sleep deprivation treatment. But he does say the method may affect some patients more positively than commonly prescribed drug treatments. Plus, the lack of sleep can produce quick results—something that some medications take weeks to do.