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PTSD and Inflammation PTSD is a severe and heterogeneous psychiatric condition, often presenting with different re-experiencing, avoidance/ numbing, and hyperarousal symptoms following exposure to a life-threatening event that results in psychological trauma (ie, exposure to an event including death or ...
Captain Han reminded me that the defendant eventually got a 15-year sentence from Judge Anthony DeFino for a vicious crime considered to be a home invasion of a South Philadelphia man’s home where he beat a senior citizen. I told Han that I believed he should have gotten a stiffer senten...
(PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), each delivered in their standard protocols. Many veterans have been greatly helped by this approach. Yet limiting trauma-focused therapy to these two options leaves the VA unable to fully address the needs of a variety of veterans. This limitation, ...
In addition, PTSD may lead to cognitive impairment with concentration problems which might hamper the effect of the conventional therapies, and in some of the individuals, the cognitive focus could reactivate the trauma. Therefore, a therapy where the focus is not directly on thinking and ...