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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Post Traumatic Growth
This thesis explores how Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which can seriously affect mental health after traumatic experiences, interacts with Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG). PTG involves positive changes like a deeper appreciation for life and stronger relationships that can happen after …
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Traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder symptom reporting and attentional bias: unravelling the misidentification of post-traumatic stress disorder in people with a traumatic brain injury
Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur following a traumatic event that has led to moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) even when there is little or no memory for the event. The incidence of PTSD is higher when diagnosed by self-report questionnaires compared to …
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The coherence of traumatic and non-traumatic memories: A tale of equivalence
… about the mechanisms by which our memories for traumatic events operate. In one view, the extremely negative nature of traumatic events results in incomplete encoding, leaving memories for these events incoherent. In this view, incoherence promotes distress and therefore must be targeted over …
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Traumatic Formations and Psychiatric Codifications: A Rhetorical History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
… Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become a medical and cultural phenomenon. Moreover, it has led to the belief that PTSD is a universal aspect of human experience. Traumatic Formations and Psychiatric Codifications: A Rhetorical History of …
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Caloric Requirements of Traumatic Paraplegics
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:06:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6406035.pdf: 4169878 bytes, checksum: 95fde9fb9e35415ef2c84d9b7700642b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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Traumatic Oral Lesions // Орални травматични лезии
… growth. In the majority of cases of oral traumatic lesions, there is no dilemma as to the cause that led to the occurrence of this suffering. Through the analysis of the data obtained from the patient's questioning and the clinical examination, the diagnosis is not difficult for the …
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Is Observation for Traumatic Hemothorax Safe?
… tube thoracostomy (TT) be considered for all traumatic hemothoraces. However, previous research has suggested that some traumatic hemothoraces may be safely observed. We sought to 1) determine the safety of selective observation for traumatic hemothorax, and 2) identify predictors of failed …
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Mitochondrial Fission After Traumatic Brain Injury
… is a central feature in the pathophysiology of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Loss of mitochondrial function disrupts normal cellular processes in the brain, as well as impedes the ability for repair and recovery, creating a vicious cycle that perpetuates damage after injury. To maintain …
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Neurocognition in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
… behavioural and emotional symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have been extensively reported in the literature. However, much less is known about the neuropsychological and neurobiological characteristics of the disorder.<br/><br/>This thesis consists of two papers, the first …
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Loss, trauma and post-traumatic growth
This study explored the lived experiences of twelve mental health care clinicians working therapeutically with suicidal clients and following client suicide. The participants included six mCounselling Psychologists, two Consultant Psychiatrists, three Community Psychiatric Nurses and a Cognitive …
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Bioengineering Analysis of Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious health concern affecting over a million people in the UK. Brain shift and herniation, which are closely related to severe disability or death, are important signs of abnormally elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) or space-occupying intracranial mass after …
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Contusion Progression in Traumatic Brain Injury
Cerebral contusions that result from brain trauma have the propensity to enlarge over the days following injury, including extension of the haemorrhage core and swelling of the surrounding peri-contusional brain. This secondary injury increases the likelihood of death and severe disabil- ity, and …
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Autoantibody Responses to Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability in young adults in the developed world. After accounting for known prognostic factors, there remains marked unexplained heterogeneity in outcome between individuals with overtly similar injuries, and furthermore, around one …
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Traumatic orthopaedic injuries in the prison population
Introducción: Estados Unidos tiene la mayor población de reclusos del mundo (per cápita y total). Los trastornos musculoesqueléticos se incluyen dentro de los 10 informes médicos más frecuentes de los reclusos; sin embargo, la literatura sobre ellos es limitada. El propósito de este estudio es …
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The natural history of post-traumatic algodystrophy.
… incidence, natural history and morbidity of post-traumatic algodystrophy. In addition a therapeutic trial of nasal calcitonin was undertaken. Quantitative and semi-quantitative techniques were devised to assess the clinical, skeletal and biochemical features of the condition. Several were shown to …
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Interpersonal Communication Patterns in Traumatic Perinatal Experiences
… patterns described by women who endured traumatic perinatal experiences (TPE). TPE is an intense perinatal process that creates psychological and emotional disruption irrespective of the baby's outcome. Ten vaginally delivered women, ages 25-40 years gave retrospective accounts of their …
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Cognitions in Non Life-Threatening Traumatic Events
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition associated with diffuse impairment and distress. The onset of PTSD requires a traumatic stressor, an event in which an individual experienced or was confronted with death, serious injury, or threat to bodily integrity. An emerging …
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