Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
2022
Amanda J Khan, Ellen Bradley, Aoife O'Donovan et al.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating, chronic disorder and efficacy rates of current PTSD treatments are underwhelming. There is a critical need for innovative approaches. We provide an overview of trauma and PTSD and cite literature providing converging evidence of the therapeutic potential of psilocybin for PTSD. No study to date has investigated psilocybin or...
Mindfulness
2022
Lora Khatib, Gabriel Riegner, Jon G Dean et al.
Gun violence is a significant problem in the United States of America. Gun violence produces lifelong psychological adversity, trauma, and grief. In the face of this epidemic, efficacious therapies that assuage gun violence-based trauma and negative health are lacking. The proposed, longitudinal pilot experiment examined the effects of an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program...
2022
Stella Amelie Kümmerle
Über zwei Drittel aller Menschen erleben in ihrem Leben mindestens ein traumatisches Ereignis (Kessler et al., 2017). Gerade nach interpersonellen Traumatisierungen ist die Rate der Betroffenen, welche eine posttraumatische Belastungsstörung (PTBS) entwickeln, sehr hoch (z. B. ca. 50% nach sexuellem Missbrauch; Hauffa et al., 2011). In der Vergangenheit wurden Angst- und Ohnmachtsgefühle als...
2022
Amanda Medeiros Furquim, Tânia Marcourakis
INTRODUÇÃO: O Transtorno de Estresse Pós-Traumático (TEPT) é um transtorno neuropsiquiátrico que se desencadeia após a experiência ou testemunho de um evento psicologicamente traumático. Este distúrbio representa um grande problema de saúde pública mundial, afetando mais de 8 milhões de americanos e custando cerca de US{dollar} 43,2 bilhões por ano aos EUA. Os tratamentos existentes consistem...
Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy
2022
Sara Jo Emmerich
Moral injury is a soul struggle for many veterans. It includes a deep sense of regret, shame, and division within themselves due to morally injurious events. Spiritual practices like Centering Prayer are complementary disciplines that help veterans heal from moral injury and process embedded trauma, guilt, and shame. Contemplative practices can help with acceptance of difficult emotions and...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
2022
Paul Frewen, Bethany L. Brand, Hugo J. Schielke et al.
The 4-dimensional (4-D) model of trauma-related dissociation differentiates between dissociative experiences involving trauma-related altered states of consciousness and symptoms of distress that do not appear to involve alterations in normal waking consciousness across four phenomenological dimensions (i.e., our experience of time, thought, body, and emotions). The current study evaluated...
Handbook of Substance Misuse and Addictions
2022
Esther Papaseit, Magí Farré, Clara Pérez‐mañá
Public health focused on drug use is considered a balancing act between preventing illicit use of drugs of abuse and ensuring access to drugs/medicines with abuse potential for a medical condition. Whereas clinically relevant drug interactions for medicines are widely recognized and are included in most pharmacovigilance systems, drug interactions with drugs of abuse are mainly underexplored,...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
2022
A. H. Young
3 citations
The 21st century has seen a dramatic flow and ebb in the fortunes of clinical psychopharmacology particularly with regard to antidepressants. For about 20 years, perhaps from about 1985 onwards, the tide flowed in with many ‘new’ drugs being made available to clinicians. In mood and psychotic disorders, these were essentially incremental advances from old drugs such as amitriptyline and...
2022
Davi Mello Castanheira, Andréa da Silva Torrão
INTRODUÇÃO: O Transtorno de Estresse Pós-Traumático (TEPT) é definido como uma condição na qual um indivíduo que sofreu um evento traumático revisita a experiência na forma de lembranças, sonhos ou episódios dissociativos de flashback. A psicoterapia é considerada como primeira opção para o tratamento de TEPT, mas também se utiliza a farmacoterapia com os ISRS paroxetina e sertralina. Os...
2022
Meredith Victoria Welch
1 citation
Psychopharmacology to treat major mental illnesses and trauma-related disorders has been around since the 1950s and peaked around the 1980s, without substantial advancement since that time.Subsequently the psychiatric understanding and treatment of mental illness radically changed over the span of those 30 years (Braslow, 2019).Despite our understanding of trauma continuing to advance, and the...