It is hoped that this chapter informs readers with little or substantial prior familiarity with stress-related disorders alike and helps the field improve its understanding, assessment, and treatment of PTSD, acute stress disorder, and adjustment disorder.Blakey, Shannon M....
Wounded spirits, ailing hearts: PTSD and related disorders among American Indians 1. describes ongoing work of the National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, which promises to shed light on the nature and extent of trauma among Indian and Native people, from ...
In this review, I will focus on the 'diathesis' (that is, genetic) component as it relates to disorders that are most commonly thought of as stress-related disorders: posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and anxiety disorders. In reality, stress (especially ...
In this review, I summarize evidence for genetic contributions to PTSD, MDD, and the anxiety disorders including genetic epidemiology, the role of common genetic variation, the role of rare and structural variation, and the role of gene–environment interaction. Available data suggest that stress-...
Objective:This study explores unrecognised symptoms related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in individuals with a range of psychiatric disorders in the absence of traumatic events. We also examine the association between PTSD symptoms, social interaction with peers and therapeutic alliance with ...
The new study is the first to examine the association between drug or alcohol use disorders and death in veterans with PTSD, and also includes data from the nation's youngest veterans who have returned from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...
INTRODUCTION This chapter reviews the literature on the prevalence and etiology of anxiety disorders, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), following disasters. We highlight that there is relatively little information about anxiety disorders other than PTSD; the paucity of data is due to the...
Although animal data lend support to a potential link,6 epidemiological evidence underpinning the association between stress-related disorders and autoimmune diseases in humans is limited. Existing data are largely based on male, military samples9-11 focusing on PTSD instead of all clinically confirmed,...
We found that 23.1% of AN and 25.5% of BN patients fulfilled the study definition for a current diagnosis of PTSD. Cumulative traumatization led to more severe symptomatology. Psychosocial resources were found to have strong associations with symptomatology. These findings provide additional support ...
in a prospective examination of the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and risk factors for DSM-III-R major depressive disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), associated adjustment disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder related to transplant (PTSD-T) during the 3 years postsurgery...