Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. Traumatic events that may trigger PTSD include violent personal assaults, natural or human-caused disasters, accidents, or military combat. In DSM-IV (1994), PTSD was classified as an anxiety disorder. DSM-5 (2013) has moved PTSD out of the anxiety disorders section into a newly created section, “Trauma- and stressor- related disorders.”

Stressful politics: voters’ cortisol responses to the outcome of the 2008 United States Presidential election

Stanton SJ, Labar KS, Saini EK, Kuhn CM, Beehner JC. Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2010 Jun;35(5):768-74. Social subordination can be biologically stressful; when mammals lose dominance contests they have acute increases in the stress hormone cortisol. However, human studies of the effect of dominance contest outcomes on cortisol […]

Effects of repeated deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan on the health of New Jersey Army National Guard troops: implications for military readiness

Kline A, Falca-Dodson M, Sussner B, Ciccone DS, Chandler H, Callahan L, Losonczy M.Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, Lyons Campus, Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences (Bldg 143), Lyons, NJ, USA.Am J Public Health. 2010 Feb;100(2):276-83. OBJECTIVES: We assessed the effects of prior military service in Iraq or Afghanistan on the health […]

Higher cerebrospinal fluid homovanillic acid levels in depressed patients with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder.

Sher L, Oquendo MA, Li S, Burke AK, Grunebaum MF, Zalsman G, Huang YY, Mann JJ.Division of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA.Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2005 Mar;15(2):203-9. Major depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are often comorbid, resulting in more impairment compared than with either diagnosis […]

Age effects on cortisol levels in depressed patients with and without comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder, and healthy volunteers.

Sher L, Oquendo MA, Galfalvy HC, Cooper TB, Mann JJ.Division of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.J Affect Disord. 2004 Oct 1;82(1):53-9. BACKGROUND: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression are frequently comorbid. Age and major depression are associated with higher cortisol levels and dexamethasone resistance, whereas PTSD is associated with […]

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Completed Suicide

Gradus JL, Qin P, Lincoln AK, Miller M, Lawler E, Sørensen HT, Lash TL. Am J Epidemiol. 2010 Feb 16. Most research regarding posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide has focused on suicidal ideation or attempts; no known study of the association between PTSD and completed suicide in a population-based sample has been reported. This […]

Posttraumatic stress disorder, guilt, depression, and meaning in life among military veterans

Owens GP, Steger MF, Whitesell AA, Herrera CJ.Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.J Trauma Stress. 2009 Nov 18. Veterans of various service eras (N = 174) completed an Internet survey about combat exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, depression, guilt, and meaning in life. Results of a hierarchical regression indicated that younger age; […]

Problem gambling in Australian PTSD treatment-seeking veterans

Biddle D, Hawthorne G, Forbes D, Coman G. Problem gambling in Australian PTSD treatment-seeking veterans. J Trauma Stress. 2005 Dec;18(6):759-67. This study explored gambling among Australian veterans entering posttraumatic stress treatment programs (n = 153). Twenty-eight percent reached the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) criteria for probable problem gambling, as did 17% on the DSM-IV […]

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex disorder precipitated by exposure to a psychologically distressing event. PTSD first appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders (DSM-III) in 1980, arising from studies of the Vietnam war, and of civilian victims of natural and man-made disasters. However, the study of PTSD dates back more […]

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