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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Defined
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD):Symptoms, Types and Treatment
• Trauma and Recovery
  Chapter Six of "Trauma & Recovery" by Judith Lewis Herman, M.D.
• Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  Recommended DSM diagnostic criteria, per "Trauma and Recovery" by Judith Herman M.D.
• Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Examples & Symptoms
• The PILOTS Database
  The PILOTS database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages
• PTSD Forum
• Why Emotional Memories Of Traumatic Life Events Are So Persistent
  Emotional memories of traumatic life events such as accidents, war experiences or serious illnesses are stored in a particularly robust way by the brain. This renders effective treatment very difficult.
• Science Daily: Biomarker For PTSD And Why PTSD Is So Difficult To Treat
• Science Daily: Severe PTSD Damages Children's Brains, Study Shows
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Is A Medical Warning Sign For Long-term Health Problems, Study Suggests
• A new study by Rhode Island Hospital researchers reports that the majority of 2,300 psychiatry outpatients had more than one disorder when seeking treatment, and more than one-third had at least three disorders.
  Patients with principal diagnoses of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and bipolar disorder had the highest number of diagnoses.
• PTSD Causes Early Death From Heart Disease, Study Suggests
  PTSD causes the body to release stress hormones, which leads to the inflammation and damage to the arteries and cardiovascular system damage. Stress hormones also tend to reduce the amount of inflammation-reducing cortisol in the body--though researchers
• Breaking the Drug Taboo: Group of Traumatized Veterans Get Experimental Ecstasy Treatment
  An experimental study that treats PTSD veterans with the drug MDMA could make life after war a lot more livable.
• Ecstasy Is the Key to Treating PTSD
  At last the incurably traumatized may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And controversially, ecstasy may be key to taming their demons.
• Science Daily: Common PTSD Drug Is No More Effective Than Placebo
• Science Daily: Effectiveness Of Most PTSD Therapies Is Uncertain
• Exposure Therapy May Help Prevent Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
• Brain Cells Related To Fear Identified, Paving The Way For More Effective Treatment Of Post-Traumatic Stress And Other Anxiety Disorders
• Trauma, PTSD Followed By Reduction In Region Of The Brain Involved With Memory
  A new study indicates traumatic events and PTSD symptoms may be followed in some cases by a size reduction in a part of the brain called the hippocampus.