This is the report of a patient whose nightmares were successfully treated with clonidine. Mr. F, a 48 years old man who developed PTSD symptoms after fighting in the Bosnian war for 15 months. He reported witnessing the loss of his family members and other relatives He was treated with ...
When such a memory is retrieved (recalled), it becomes unstable again for a short period of time, at which point it is susceptible to modifications (Nader and Hardt, 2009). The memory is then restabilized (reconsolidated) in its modified state. In PTSD, flashbacks, nightmares, and ...
Materials and methods On a dobule blinded clinical trial we studied two groups of inpatient PTSD by using clonidine or prazosin in each group for 8 weeks. Then we rate the frequency, deepness and serverity of the nightmares by CAPS. All of the patients were male, married and chronic form ...