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Showing 1 to 20 of 293 for “"Posttraumatic Stress Disorder"”.
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Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… will experience an undiagnosed mental health disorder during pregnancy and postpartum due to social stigmas preventing treatment, multifaceted health disparities preventing healthcare access, and healthcare systems insufficiencies hindering current treatment. Within the health research and …
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Acetylcholine and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric condition that can develop following exposure to a traumatic event involving actual or threatened death or serious injury. Responses include intense fear, helplessness or horror. Symptoms are characterised into clusters, described as …
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Distinct Diagnosis: Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is exhibited in patients who have distressing and/or impairing thoughts and behaviors after a traumatic event. The DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4th edition, text revision) currently lists several associated features of PTSD that researchers have …
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Cardiovascular Reactivity in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression
Exaggerated cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) to stress has been implicated in the increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), yet mixed results have been reported. The CVR research may have been confounded by underrepresentation of women, …
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Trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in South Africa
… thesis is to analyze data from the South African Stress and Health (SASH) study and , for the first time, generate information on the epidemiology of traumatic event s (TEs) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and on the association of TEs with other psychopathological and physical health …
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Combat Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Effect of Intelligence on Symptomatology
… this study was to examine the relations between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder symptomatology and intelligence. Thirty American combat veterans of the Vietnam War, diagnosed with chronic PTSD, were given a psychodiagnostic structured interview. Participants were assessed for Intelligence Quotient …
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Working Memory in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Trauma Cue Reactivity
Posttraumatic stress disorder involves a constellation of neural and behavioral alterations in response to trauma exposure. Aside from symptoms involved in posttraumatic stress disorder diagnosis, patients frequently present with working memory impairments. Working memory training has been …
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TREATING POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AMONG AGING VETERANS: WHAT WORKS?
<p>Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious condition with debilitating symptoms which affects military veterans and has been understudied in the older population. Aside from treating the veterans of the Vietnam War and World War II, as service members from more recent conflicts age, the …
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Identification of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Post-ICU Patients
… critical care are experiencing post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS) as a result of life-saving interventions received in the intensive care unit (ICU). PTSS is associated with poor patient outcomes and decreased quality of life compared to post-ICU patients without PTSS. Personal and clinical …
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Social Attitudes toward Men and Women with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… traumatic events, the risk of developing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is at least twice as high in women than in men after exposure to comparable traumas. These findings are more consistent in response to some types of trauma (e.g., assaultive violence) than others (e.g., natural …
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Anger and Guilt in Treatment for Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Anger and guilt are associated with PTSD and depression (e.g., Novaco & Chemtob, 2002; Henning & Freuh, 1997). Yet, little work has investigated how anger, guilt, PTSD and depression relate in baseline psychopathology, treatment engagement, and outcome. The present study utilized baseline, …
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Expanding the Role of Criterion A2 in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Posttraumatic stress disorder is a psychiatric construct that refers to symptoms that may follow exposure to a traumatic event. The current definition of a traumatic event differentiates between the objective event, criterion A1, and an individual’s subjective response, criterion A2. This study …
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Expanding the Role of Criterion A2 in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Posttraumatic stress disorder is a psychiatric construct that refers to symptoms that may follow exposure to a traumatic event. The current definition of a traumatic event differentiates between the objective event, criterion A1, and an individual’s subjective response, criterion A2. This study …
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MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR MILITARY VETERANS WITH POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
<p>Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has affected millions of veterans who have served in the United States Military. PTSD causes severe impairments in one's mental health, and is correlated with homelessness, substance abuse, and unemployment. Recently, the United States Department Veterans …
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Event Centrality After Trauma: Stability, Trauma Type, And Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
<p>In order to better understand posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and PTSD’s etiology, researchers have begun examining whether PTSD symptoms are related to the centrality of the traumatic event (i.e., whether the trauma is central to the individual’s life story and changes the way he …
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Proximate And Evolutionary Insights Into The Epigenetics Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
<p>Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an important medical and social condition. Although the vast majority of individuals are exposed to traumatic events within their lifetime, a minority subsequently develop diagnosable PTSD. What underlies differential risk and resiliency in the face of …
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Gender Differences Within Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Due to Military Sexual Trauma
BACKGROUND: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a trauma- and stressor-related disorder which may develop after an individual has been exposed to a traumatic event. One cause of PTSD is military sexual trauma (MST), which refers to sexual assault or harassment that a veteran experienced during …
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Using Therapeutic Writing to Deconstruct Recovery from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
… trauma has produced a post-millennial epoch of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a debilitating anxiety disorder that occurs after exposure to an extreme stressor or prolonged victimization. After an extensive review of treatment protocols in 2008, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) exhorted …
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A Decision Tree Approach To The Assessment Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… be the optimal method of assessing symptoms of posttraumatic stress; however few clinicians report using structured assessments to guide clinical practice. One key impediment to the use of structured assessments in clinical practice is the amount of time required for test administration and …
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