Tag: PTSD

Study suggests preschool children at risk for stress after seeing domestic violence and another traumatic event

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From the University of Michigan press release via HealthCanal: Preschool children exposed to domestic violence and additional traumatic events are at increased risk for developing traumatic stress disorder, a new… Read more »

Study suggests couples therapy may decrease PTSD symptoms, improve relationship

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From the JAMA and Archives Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Among couples in which one partner was diagnosed as having posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), participation in disorder-specific couple therapy resulted… Read more »

Study suggests accelerated resolution therapy significantly reduces PTSD symptoms

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From the University of South Florida (USF Health) press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Nursing have shown that brief treatments with Accelerated… Read more »

Study looks at information exchange between separate identities in patients with disassociative identity disorder

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From the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) press release via MedicalXpress: People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) are able to exchange information among their separate identities. This has been… Read more »

Study suggests sleep deprivation may reduce risk of PTSD

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From the Ben-Gurion University press release via EurekAlert!: Sleep deprivation in the first few hours after exposure to a significantly stressful threat actually reduces the risk of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder… Read more »

Researchers develop new intervention for PTSD patients

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From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) press release via ScienceDaily: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is more treatable than previously thought. A novel method has shown to be… Read more »

Researchers looks at why it can be difficult to shake feelings of anxiety after a stressful event

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From the Universität Bonn press release via ScienceDaily: Scientists at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin have discovered a mechanism which stops the process of forgetting anxiety after a stress… Read more »