http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Millions of adults are exposed to traumatic events each year. Shortly after exposure many experience symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) such as flashbacks, emotional numbing and difficulty sleeping. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-effective-evidence-based-interventions-posttraumatic-stress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:46:43 EST news284129175 (HealthDay)—Some of the numbers are staggering: more than 75 Americans dead, thousands evacuated from their homes, millions left without power for days and billions of dollars in damage from "superstorm" Sandy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-superstorm-sandy-toll-mental-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:50:02 EST news270987924 Stress-related disorders are often linked to people working in the line of fire. In a study led by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center in collaboration with the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, police recruits were assessed during academy training before critical incident exposure and provided salivary cortisol at first awakening and after 30 minutes. Police academy recruits who showed the greatest rise in the stress hormone cortisol after waking up were more likely to show acute stress symptoms in response to trauma years later as police officers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-stress-response-predictor-police-officers.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:17:35 EST news241795045 Prolonged exposure therapy, cognitive therapy, and delayed prolonged exposure therapy, appear to reduce posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in patients who have experienced a recent traumatic event, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-therapies-beneficial-ptsd-symptoms-trauma.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:14:36 EST news236880860 Data in a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggest that certain variants of a gene that helps regulate serotonin (a brain chemical related to mood), may serve as a useful predictor of risk for symptoms related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following a trauma. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-predictors-post-traumatic-stress-disorder.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:00:06 EST news234449045 The September 11 terror strikes left American psychiatrists a lasting legacy of unexpected size: thousands of people living and struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, 10 years on. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-legacy-psychiatric-trauma-stress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:41:31 EST news233808081