BACKGROUND While acute cortisol administration has been found to impair retrieval of emotional memories in healthy subjects, the duration of this memory impairment is still unknown. Propranolol, on the other hand, may impair the reconsolidation of emotional memories during reactivation, although human studies examining such effects are scarce. The present investigation was therefore undertaken ...

Psychology responded to the national needs in World War I and World War II and was itself transformed. National need calls a third time: unprecedented levels of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, suicide, and anxiety along with a need for a resilient Army capable of meeting the persistent warfare of the foreseeable future. As a large part of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program, po...

TheauthorsusedthePosttraumaticStressDisorderChecklist(PCL) Scale2andtheHopkinsSymptomChecklist(HSCL)scale3toevaluate posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety-depression inthesurvivors.Theyreportedthathalfof thesurvivorshadsymptoms of PTSD, and that more than three-fourths of the survivors still had symptoms of anxiety 6 months after the incident. Their research,however,hadacross-section...

The present study examined the roles of anxiety sensitivity (AS; the tendency to misinterpret physical internal sensations of harmful) and distress tolerance (the capacity to tolerate aversive stimuli) in terms of the expression of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among a sample of trauma-exposed, treatment-seeking tobacco smokers (n = 137; Mage = 37.7 years, 48.2% female). It was ...

Pharmacologic treatment of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder often involves antidepressant drugs. Combat nightmares often persist. The addition of cyproheptadine, in a median dose of 16-24 mg orally at night, controls the nightmares.

OBJECTIVES We examined stress levels and other indicators of mental health in reservists and active-duty military personnel by deployment status. METHODS We used data from the Department of Defense Health-Related Behaviors surveys, which collect comprehensive, population-based data for reserve and active-duty forces. Data were collected from 18 ,342 reservists and 16, 146 active-duty personne...

T incidence of anxiety disorders including post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is very high among women who abuse alcohol and/or other drugs (Briere & Runtz, 1987; Najavits, Weiss, & Shaw, 1997; Paone, Chavkin, Wiliets, Friedman, & Jarlais, 1992), and data from the US National Comorbidity Survey (Kessler, Berglund, Demler, Jin, Merikangas, & Walters, 1995), an Australian epidemiological study...

The high comorbidity rates of posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic pain have been widely reported, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Emerging evidence suggested that an excess of inflammatory immune activities in the hippocampus involved in the progression of both posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic pain. Considering that microglia are substrates underlying the initiation...

BACKGROUND Posttraumatic stress (PTS) disorder after injury is a significant yet underaddressed issue in the trauma care setting. Parental anxiety may impact a child's risk of future, persistent PTS symptoms after injury. This study aimed to: (1) identify injury incident and demographic variables related to a positive screen for future, persistent PTS symptoms in children; and (2) examine the r...

various psychotherapies for post-traumatic stress disorder and disturbances associated with it are used. the purpose of this review was to introduce of traditional and modern psychotherapy in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. the data was collected by searching of online databases, english articles selected from science direct, pubmed, proquest, and persian articles from medlib, ...