Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Canada's Bill C-31 to change immigration act could severely affect mental health of refugees
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Scientists discover dissociative subtype of post-traumatic stress disorder
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Research finds cognitive-behavioral therapy effective in combatting anxiety disorders
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One in eight heart patients suffer post-traumatic stress disorder
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Researchers develop new drug that blocks traumatic memories
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Predicting post-traumatic stress disorder before it happens
Most people have intense emotional reactions to traumatizing events like road accidents or combat. But some suffer far longer, caught in the grip of long-term debilitating disorders such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ...
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Hormones, Elvis, and human emotion: Shedding light on what makes people feel and act the way they do
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Losing money, emotions and evolution
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With altered brain chemistry, fear is more easily overcome
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Study links PTSD to hidden head injuries suffered in combat
Even when brain injury is so subtle that it can only be detected by an ultra-sensitive imaging test, the injury might predispose soldiers in combat to post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a University of Rochester ...
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma. This event may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else, or to one's own or someone else's physical, sexual, or psychological integrity, overwhelming the individual's ability to cope. As an effect of psychological trauma, PTSD is less frequent and more enduring than the more commonly seen acute stress response. 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. Formal diagnostic criteria (both DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10) require that the symptoms last more than one month and cause significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
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