Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a highly prevalent psychiatric disorder that can become chronic and debilitating when left untreated. The most commonly recommended first-line treatments for PTSD among adults are individual trauma-focused psychotherapies. Other evidence-based treatments include specific antidepressant medications and non-trauma-focused psychotherapies. Despite the...
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy on Jul 25 2024 (see record 2025-07042-001). In the original article, there was an error in the calculations that led to the overstatement of the symptom severity of the veteran sample. Specifically, sum scores for the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom...
Reports an error in "Ayahuasca in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: Mixed-methods case series evaluation in military combat veterans" by Brandon Weiss, Lê-Anh L. Dinh-Williams, Nick Beller, Ian M. Raugh, Gregory P. Strauss and William K. Campbell (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, Advanced Online Publication, Dec 07, 2023, np). In the original article,...
Ketamine is being actively investigated as a rapid-acting treatment for many conditions with a stress-related psychopathology, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The majority of studies regarding ketamine treatment for PTSD to date (including open-label and randomised control trials) have focused on intravenous (IV) ketamine administration. This administration route has...
In the version of the article initially published, some members of the MAPP2 Study Collaborator Group were listed only in the Supplementary Information. Charlotte Harrison, Berra Yazar-Klosinski, Wael Garas, Darrick May, Cole Marta, Susan Walker, Elizabeth Nielson, Gregory Wells, Randall Brown, Revital Amiaz, Yair Wallach, Ray Worthy, Alia Lilienstein and Amy Emerson have now been added to the...
3,4-Methylenedioxymetamphetamine(MDMA)-assisted psychotherapy (MDMA-AP) is a proposed treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that may be approved for adults soon. PTSD is also common among trauma-exposed adolescents, and current treatments leave much room for improvement. We present a rationale for considering MDMA-AP for treating PTSD among adolescents. Evidence suggests that as an...
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder with defining abnormalities in memory, and psychedelics may be promising candidates for the treatment of PTSD given their effects on multiple memory systems. Most PTSD and psychedelic research has investigated memory with fear conditioning and extinction. While fruitful, conditioning and extinction provide a limited model of the...
Meditation-based interventions are novel and effective non-pharmacologic treatments for veterans with PTSD. We examined relationships between treatment response, early life trauma exposure, DNA polymorphisms, and methylation in the serotonin transporter (SLC6A4) and FK506-binding protein 5 (FKBP5) genes. DNA samples and clinical outcomes were examined in 72 veterans with PTSD who received...
Increased stress among medical students in military college has been a challenge in the field of education. One approach to addressing stress reduction is mindfulness training. MBSR has been verified to improve the health status of different individuals. The aim of this study was to examine whether MBSR improves the psychological resilience, posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth of...