Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is increasingly recognized as both a disorder of enormous mental health and societal burden, but also as an anxiety disorder that may be particularly understandable from a scientific perspective. Specifically, PTSD can be conceptualized as a disorder of fear and stress dysregulation, and the neural circuitry underlying these pathways in both animals and hum...

OBJECTIVE This pilot study examines iRest, a form of guided mindfulness meditation, and its ability to reduce symptoms associated with sexual trauma, including military sexual trauma (MST), in a sample of women seeking psychotherapy services at a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center. METHODS 90-minute sessions were held 19 times, twice a week for 10 weeks, except for the week wi...

BACKGROUND Intrusive re-experiencing in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) comprises distressing sensory impressions from the trauma that seem to occur 'out of the blue'. A key question is how intrusions are triggered. One possibility is that PTSD is characterized by a processing advantage for stimuli that resemble those that accompanied the trauma, which would lead to increased detection of...

Adults with posttraumatic stress disorder from childhood trauma (ch-PTSD) described their 'worst' traumatic event (a single or repeated event) pre-post treatment for PTSD during an international clinical trial. The memory reports were coded specificity (Episodic vs. General) and level of detail. Repeated (RE) narratives contained more generic fewer episodic references but no details than memori...

posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a common response to traumatic events. a cognitive model proposed that ptsd becomes chronic when individuals process the trauma in a way that leads to a sense of serious, current threat. the sense of threat arises as an outcome of excessively negative appraisals of the trauma and its sequel and a disturbance of autobiographical memory. variations in the n...

Violence is on the increase all over the world. The method, manner and quantum of such actions remain little explored. The common man has clearly received the message of power through the barrel of a gun. In Pakistan the major battle field of ethnic, political, sectarian and communal conflicts was Sindh and Punjab. Trauma and torture leaves a permanent scar on the survivor. It has physical, psy...

Psychological trauma and obesity co-occur frequently and have been identified as major risk factors for psychiatric disorders. Surprisingly, preclinical studies examining how obesity disrupts the ability of the brain to cope with psychological trauma are lacking. The objective of this study was to determine whether an obesogenic Western-like high-fat diet (WD) predisposes rats to post-traumatic...

One in five UK police officers suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or Complex Disorder, yet there is no gold standard measure of trauma exposure available. This study coded 4,987 exposures reported by 1,531 officers, using their own language. The resulting checklist describes over 70% typical ‘worst’ traumatic incidents (plus situational factors, including Covid19). Police Traumatic Exp...

This paper presents a concise, fully-referenced, state-of-the-art review of psychological trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for emergency mental health practitioners. The nature of traumatic events, their common symptomatology, their disruptions to normal psychological and biological functioning, and the negative health consequences of untreated incidents are presented. Implicatio...