Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, was not officially recognized until 1980 when the American Psychiatric Association added PTSD to the Third Edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Unfortunately, it wasn't …
Category Archives: PTSD
Old Before Their Time: The Effect of PTSD on Children's Telomeres
Aoife O'Donovan, PhD and her colleagues from the San Francisco VA Medical Center published a study in Biological Psychiatry, showing that adults with PTSD had significantly shorter telomeres than those without a history …
Book Review – Transformed by Postpartum Depression: Women's …
Cynthia Good Mojab, MS, LMHCA, IBCLC, RLC, CATSM, reviews Dr. Karraa's book and interviews her in a three-part series on “Transformed by Postpartum Depression: Women's Stories of Trauma and Growth.” Today …
Guess Which One Suffers From PTSD? | Military Spouse
“My daughter exhibits many behaviors classic to PTSD: she avoids hospitals like the plague (we don't even talk about them, or watch shows with hospitals in them), she has a hard time leaving her Dad's side, and is easily angered. She is …
Prophylactic lithium treatment and cognitive performance in patients …
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