While combat veterans have high rates of PTSD andsuicideand deserve ourattention, so do womensexual assaultand abuse survivors. This article will review the symptoms of PTSD, its prevalence in women and men, and factors that may contribute to sex differences in PTSD risk, including the typ...
Women In Their 50s More Prone To PTSD Than MenGraeme Baldwin
A recent study on the mental health condition known as Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggests that gender differences may play a role in who is most vulnerable to developing the condition. National surveys and statistical models which predict PTSD cases say that women are far more likely...
About twice as many women as men exhibit depression. Women are about twice as likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and somewhere between two to four times as likely to experience an eating disorder. Men can expect to die about five years earlier than women, but women ar...
Childhood abuse has been implicated as an environmental factor that increases the risk for developing schizophrenia. A recent large population-based case–control study found that abuse may be a risk factor for schizophrenia in women, but not men. Given
womenThere is a great deal of speculation about why women are at greater risk than men for being diagnosed with PTSD. Among the plausible arguments are (1) differences in the types of trauma experienced, (2) inflated rates due to methodological gender bias, (3) socially defined social roles...
Childhood abuse has been implicated as an environmental factor that increases the risk for developing schizophrenia. A recent large population-based case–control study found that abuse may be a risk factor for schizophrenia in women, but not men. Given
There is a great deal of speculation about why women are at greater risk than men for being diagnosed with PTSD. Among the plausible arguments are (1) differences in the types of trauma experienced, (2) inflated rates due to methodological gender bias, (3) socially defined social roles and...
How and why does the pharmaceutical management of PTSD differ between men and women?Posttraumatic stress disorderantidepressantsclinical trialsdepressiongenderhealthcare utilizationinsomniapharmacotherapysubstance use disorderThe continued wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought an increased focus on posttraumatic...
Stress-related disorders like PTSD and depression are more common in women than men, yet historically, studies only used male rodents when seeking to understand the neurological bases of these disorders. To correct this gap in our understanding, several research groups have looked at sex differe...