News tagged with post traumatic stress syndrome
Drug prevents post-traumatic stress syndrome
when a severely stressful event triggers exaggerated and chronic fear – affects nearly 8 million people in the United States and is hard to treat. In a preclinical study, Northwestern Medicine scientists have for the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 06, 2010 |
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Intensive care diaries protect patients from PTSD
Some intensive care patients develop post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) after the trauma of a difficult hospital stay, and this is thought to be exacerbated by delusional or fragmentary memories of their time in the intensive ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Neuroscientists Show How Brain Stores Memories of Specific Fears
(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain is capable of holding and retrieving memories for specific fears, revealing a more sophisticated storage and recall capacity than previously thought, neuroscientists have found. The study, which ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 02, 2010 |
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Mathematical model could help diagnose and treat stress disorders
(PhysOrg.com) -- Over 20 million people in North America suffer chronic stress-related diseases. But two University of Alberta researchers may be on the fast track to treating these illnesses.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 19, 2009 |
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Blast overpressure is generated from the firing of weapons and may cause brain injury
The brain may be injured by the noise, which is produced when, for example, an anti-tank weapon (Bazooka, Karl Gustav) or a howitzer (Haubits) is fired. Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy demonstrated mild injury to brain ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Metabolic syndrome a risk for veterans with PTSD
Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to have metabolic syndrome than veterans without PTSD, according to a study led by Pia Heppner, Ph.D., psychologist with the University of California, San ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 08, 2009 |
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