Examples of PTSD in the following topics:
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- PTSD may correspond to and be caused by overactivation of such fear circuits.
- Although most people (50–90%) encounter trauma over a lifetime, only about 8% develop full PTSD.
- Predictor models have consistently found that childhood trauma, chronic adversity, and familial stressors increase risk for PTSD as well as biological markers of risk for PTSD after a traumatic event in adulthood.
- CBT have been proven to be an effective treatment for PTSD and is currently considered the standard of care for PTSD by the United States Department of Defense.
- Describe the role of the endocrine system in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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- PTSD is believed to be caused by the experience of a traumatic event.
- Not everyone who experiences trauma will develop PTSD: according to the National Center for PTSD, approximately 20% of women and 8% of men who experience a traumatic event will develop PTSD.
- A variety of medications have shown adjunctive benefit in reducing PTSD symptoms; however, there is no clear drug treatment for PTSD.
- C-PTSD is distinct from, but similar to, PTSD; however, C-PTSD was not accepted by the American Psychiatric Association as a mental disorder in the DSM-5.
- C-PTSD is also characterized by attachment disorder, particularly the pervasive insecure, or disorganized-type attachment—elements that are not adequately described by the diagnosis of PTSD.
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- Women are more likely to experience more high impact trauma, and are also more likely to develop PTSD than men, although men who were active in combat have the same risk of developing PTSD as women.
- The DSM IV-TR criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is defined as the following:
- While a variety of medications have shown to be beneficial in reducing PTSD symptoms, there is no clear drug treatment for PTSD.
- Many forms of psychotherapy have been advocated for trauma-related problems such as PTSD.
- CBT has been proven to be an effective treatment for PTSD and is currently considered the standard of care for PTSD by the United States Department of Defense.
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- PTSD is also discussed in cases of deviant, violent behavior on the part of individuals who have experience trauma while in the military.
- Take, for example, the case of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- PTSD is frequently invoked in cases of child abuse, in which the psychological trauma of having been abused as a child can contribute to deviant behavior in the future.
- PTSD is also discussed in cases of deviant, violent behavior on the part of individuals who have experienced trauma while in the military.
- Cases of PTSD and Severe Depression Among U.S.
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- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma .
- Diagnostic symptoms for PTSD include re-experiencing the original trauma(s) through flashbacks or nightmares, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and increased arousal such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger, and hypervigilance.
- The regions of the brain involved in memory processing that are implicated in PTSD include the hippocampus, amygdala, and frontal cortex, while the heightened stress response is likely to involve the thalamus, hypothalamus, and locus coeruleus.
- However, other studies suggest that hippocampal changes are explained by whole brain atophy, and generalized white matter atrophy is exhibited by people with PTSD.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to psychological trauma.
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- One of the most serious ways that stress can impact psychological well-being is in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- PTSD is a severe condition that may develop after a person is exposed to extreme levels of stress related to one or more traumatic events, such as sexual assault, serious injury or the threat of death.
- Sufferers of PTSD are confronted with feelings of helplessness, fear, or horror when experiencing their traumatic event.
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- EMDR was originally developed to treat adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, it is also used to treat other conditions.
- EMDR is commonly used in the treatment of psychological trauma, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (C-PTSD).
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- The HPA is important to psychology because it is intimately involved with many mood disorders involving stress, including anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, insomnia, PTSD, borderline personality disorder, ADHD, depression, and many others.
- In post-traumatic stress disorder there appears to be lower-than-normal cortisol release, and it is thought that a blunted hormonal response to stress may predispose a person to develop PTSD.
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- The hippocampus tends to be smaller in those who suffer from this disorder, as it is in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- However in BPD, unlike PTSD, the amygdala also tends to be smaller.
- Some argue that people diagnosed with BPD should instead be diagnosed with PTSD, as this would acknowledge the impact of abuse on the person's behavior.
- Others argue that that a diagnosis of PTSD does not encompass all aspects of the disorder and is neurologically and characteristically different than BPD.
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- Individuals suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) show marked reductions in volume in several parts of the hippocampus, which may be the result of decreased levels of neurogenesis and dendritic branching (the generation of new neurons and the generation of new dendrites in existing neurons, respectively) (Wang et al., 2010).
- While it is impossible to determine causation, studies have found improvements in behavior as well as increase in hippocampal volume following either pharmacological or cognitive behavioral therapy in individuals suffering from PTSD (Bremner & Vermetten, 2004; Levy-Gigi, Szabó, Kelemen, & Kéri, 2013).