OBJECTIVE A significant number of Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans are returning from deployment and presenting to Veterans Health Administration (VHA) polytrauma clinics with elevated rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Inherent to the accurate assessment and treatment of this diagnostically complex group of...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the most common psychological disorder among victims of natural disasters. PTSD prevalence and risk factors among adolescents remain unidentified among victims of the Wen-Chuan earthquake. This study screened survivors to determine the prevalence of PTSD and examined risk factors for PTSD among adolescents at three Wen-Chuan secondary schools. PTSD scree...

OBJECTIVE The authors investigated the potential effectiveness of biofeedback as a complementary treatment for PTSD. DESIGN This exploratory study used heart variability biofeedback and determined its efficacy in treating PTSD through the use of two rating instruments, The Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL)-Military version and the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale. Active duty se...

In 2010, Train A Dog, Save a Warrior (TADSAW) commenced operations in San Antonio, TX. Innovative in design and method, TADSAW set out to mitigate the effects of PTSD by pairing current and former military personnel with self-trained service dogs. While numerous therapies already existed for PTSD at the time of TADSAW’s inception, most were unsatisfactory on account of their cost, side effects,...

Tropomyosin-related kinase receptor B (TrkB) has been observed to be a common player in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the regulation of serum lipids levels. However, interplays of PTSD with TrkB on serum lipids levels have not been explored yet. This study was to investigate the interplays of PTSD and TrkB rs1187327 on serum lipid profiles. Variants of TrkB rs1187327 of 709 high scho...

Individuals with traumatic experiences may develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and co-morbid disorders, such as anxiety major depression, substance use disorder. Although exposure therapy is considered the “gold standard” for treatment PTSD, dropout rates patient distress are relatively high. One promising approach live Z-score neurofeedback (ZNF) training, but clinical ev...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND This study explored the prevalence and severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in college students who lived in earthquake center one year after the Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008, the factors affecting the prevalence of PTSD was also investigated. METHODS 2987 students studying at the senior normal school in Tibetan autonomous region which was one of t...