Post-traumatic stress disorder News

PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder is considered to be an anxiety issue related to a traumatic occurrence Receiving an accurate diagnosis is often an important first step toward finding the treatments Knowing that you aren’t alone can help give you the courage to reach out and ask for some help

By creating a safe and nurturing environment, friends, family members, and communities can play a pivotal role in facilitating healing and recovery of people dealing with PTSD.

"It's everything that I went through and am still going through because of that abusive relationship."

Many patients live in fear that their cancer may come back and they may think the cancer has returned with every lump or bump, pain or ache, fatigue or fever.

Highly-trained dogs in Australia are helping ex-armymen overcome the mental scars of war and fight PTSD easily.

PTSD is a term for a broad range of psychological symptoms that can develop after someone experiences or witnesses a traumatic event.

Results showed that those who had played Tetris had fewer intrusive memories of the trauma in total over the week immediately following the accident than the controls.

For the research, the mice were given a small dose of intravenous ketamine or a placebo either one month, one week, or one hour before they were subjected to a series of small shocks.

PTSD is an anxiety disorder that occurs in about one-quarter of individuals who experience psychological trauma.

People with PTSD experience highly emotional and distressing memories or even flashbacks where they feel as if they were experiencing the trauma all over again.

Major debate exists about the reason behind the increased risk of suicide in trauma survivors. 

A new study has revealed that marijuana could help to treat alcoholics, people who are addicted to drugs and those who are suffering from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and social anxiety.

Traumatic stress may have different impact in the brains of adolescent boys and girls, according to a new brain-scanning study.

Increased stress can cause changes in brain's reward centre, which may then lead to a rise in alcohol consumption. 

The nightmares may trigger specific types of negative cognitive thoughts - such as defeat, entrapment and hopelessness - which reinforce suicidal thoughts and behaviours, researchers said.

The findings highlight the need to screen pregnant women for possible undiagnosed PTSD.

Female rats often respond to fear by "darting" where they start running around like crazy when they sense threat, new research has found, suggesting that the findings could lead to better treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in humans.

Journalists who report on life-threatening events are at increased risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety, says a study that looked into the emotional well-being of reporters covering violent events in Kenya.