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Post-traumatic stress disorders
A community portal about Post-traumatic stress disorders with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Post-traumatic stress disorder is a term for certain psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with... [more]
A community portal about Post-traumatic stress disorders with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Post-traumatic stress disorder is a term for certain psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with, stressful experiences that the person experiences as highly traumatic. The experience must involve actual or threatened death, serious physical injury, or a threat to physical and/or psychological integrity. It is occasionally called post-traumatic stress reaction to emphasize that it is a routine result of traumatic experience rather than a manifestation of a pre-existing psychological weakness on the part of the patient.
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Military experiment seeks clues to predict which troops might suffer post-traumatic stress
Posttraumatic stress disorder - Mental health - Health - Disorders - Anxiety
- The Many Faces of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (my.abcnews.go.com)
The military has launched a new program that’ll use genetic testing and brain scans to figure out whether troops are vulnerable to post-traumatic stress — before they head off to war and experience that stress.
The initiative is a cooperative venture between the Marine Corps, Department of Veterans Affairs and Navy Medicine. Testing on 1,000 Marines [...]
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Shootings in Fort Hood, Texas, earlier this month put the spotlight back on post-traumatic stress disorder, and researchers now say that powerful brain scans may help them to diagnose the condition. Why are soldiers prone to developing PTSD?
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A military experiment is underway to try to predict who's most at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder. Understanding underlying triggers might help reduce the burden of those who return psychologically wounded - if they can get early help. PTSD is a crippling condition that can emerge after a terrifying event - car accident, sexual assault, terrorist attack or combat. It's thought to affect as many as one in five veterans returning from...
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- Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD (google.com)
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- Military looking for ways to predict PTSD | Capitol Hill Blue (blogsearch.google.com)
It's thought that about 18% of the population, or close to one in every five adults, has a form of anxiety disorder, whether it's post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, or something else.Contributor: Abu MonsurPublished: Nov 19, 2009
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