18, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Heightened fear responses occur in certain areas of the brain in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study reports. The research included 67 U.S. military veterans who …
Category Archives: GAD
PTSD at the end of life | GeriPal – Geriatrics and Palliative Care Blog
On our clinical palliative care service at the San Francisco VA we have also observed PTSD symptoms escalating near the end of life. As VJ notes in her essay, many of the medications we use in palliative care can lead to …
16 Ways To Improve Your Mental Health In 2016 – Huffington Post
New Year's resolutions often focus on improving physical health, but what if you focused on mental health this year? While the culture at large often dismisses mental self-care, in part because of the stigma against those facing …
A Vaccine for Depression? – Nautilus
They treat depression as if it were caused by a chemical imbalance: Pump in more of one key ingredient, or sop up another, and you will have fixed the problem. Beck_BR-2 Prepared: One day, soldiers heading into combat could be … “I really do think stress is to mental illness as cigarettes are to heart disease,” says Gerard Sanacora, the psychiatry professor running the ketamine trial at Yale. The theory describes stress grinding down individual neurons gradually, as …
Could Ketamine Be Used to Vaccinate for Depression or PTSD?
Depression is the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting 30 percent of Americans at some point in their lives. But despite half a century of research, ubiquitous advertising, and blockbuster sales, …