For many of our military members, it’s difficult to go to war and return home as the same person. Our service members often experience traumatic, life-changing events during their deployments, and the scars from those experiences can manifest as PTSD. There are many different treatments for the condition, but now researchers at Columbia University are experimenting with equine-assisted therapy for our veterans. Working with horses can be therapeutic for several reasons: Horses are naturally hyper-vigilant, which helps the veterans they work with perceive and comprehend fear responses. They ...