post traumatic stress disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...

What it is: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term for certain severe psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with, stressful events that the person experiences as...

Symptoms of PTSD & Complex PTSD

Common symptoms of PTSD & Complex PTSD that sufferers generally report are experiencing hypervigilence (feels like paranoia but isn't) an exaggerated startle response irritability sudden angry or...

Suffering differently

By Ethan Watters After the 2004 tsunami in Asia, many mental-health experts agreed that a "second tsunami" of mental illness in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder would strike the region....

Most interventions ineffective for PTSD prevention

Robert Finn HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. - Administering individual debriefing, group debriefing, or pharmacologic interventions immediately after a traumatic event appears to offer little benefit in preventing...

War veterans' depression, PTSD burden family relationships

Depression may play bigger readjustment role than previously thought for troubled vetsDepression may be an unrecognized readjustment problem for recently returning veterans of the conflicts in Iraq...

Treatment at home and on the front lines - Part 2: Long-term deployment and mental health

Interview: Capt. Robert A. Alonso, MC, USN This is the second of a two-part series focusing on mental illness among military personnel deployed long-term. The first, published last week in Psychiatry...

Trauma shapes Katrina's kids

By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY New Orleans pediatrician Corey Hebert dreads the rainy weeks when he knows he'll face about 20 sobbing, screaming children in full-blown panic attacks. "They can't be...

Helping childen understand and deal with Minneapolis bridge collapse

The National Child Trauma Stress NetworkThe recent collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis was very frightening for many people. It was particularly traumatic...

New treatment models — part 1: Long-term deployment and mental health

Interview: Capt. Robert A. Alonso, MC, USN This is the first of a two part series focusing on mental illness among military personnel deployed long-term. As such, it will focus on psychiatric issues...

Abstract: Reduced GABA(A) benzodiazepine receptor binding in veterans with PTSD

Molecular Psychiatry 2007 Jul;doi: 10.1038/sj.mp.4002054Reduced GABAA benzodiazepine receptor binding in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder Geuze E, van Berckel BN, Lammertsma AA, Boellaard...

Long war deployments increase PTSD risk

Prolonged periods of deployment among Britain's armed forces is associated with mental health problems, according to King's Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR), London, researchers. They...

War victims with PTSD, depression more likely to favor violence to end conflict

Two studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression in the victims of wars in Africa, and that...