Case Reports in Psychiatry
January 17, 2022
Jill S Bange, Kelly E Melvin
Introduction: While clonidine is used clinically for the treatment of nightmares in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), few case reports demonstrating this indication exist, and there have been few studies investigating clonidine's mechanism of action for controlling nightmare symptoms. Case Report. In order to further characterize clonidine's role in treating nightmare symptoms in PTSD, we...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
January 12, 2022
Shannon Dames, Pamela Kryskow, Crosbie Watler
38 citations
Amid an international pandemic and a worsening mental health crisis, ketamine-assisted therapy is emerging as a promising solution for those deemed “treatment resistant.” Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression are on the rise, with accelerating direct (e.g., burden of suffering) and indirect (e.g., disability/role impairment and impact on family) costs. Psychedelic-assisted...
ACS Chemical Neuroscience
January 6, 2022
D. Kelley, Katy Venable, Aspasia Destouni et al.
41 citations
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with cognitive deficits, oxidative stress, and inflammation. Animal models have recapitulated features of PTSD, but no comparative RNA sequencing analysis of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the brain between PTSD and animal models of traumatic stress has been carried out. We compared DEGs from the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of an...
United Research Forum eBooks
2022
Laila Jeebodh
1 citation
Background: More than 5.6 million Syrians have fled the country as refugees, and another 6.2 million people have been displaced within Syria (World Vision, 2018), creating the largest refugee and displacement crisis of our time.Research provided by Refugee Health (2011) reported that before being forced to flee, refugees may experience imprisonment, torture, loss of property, malnutrition,...
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
2022
Lionel Gibert, Mathieu Coulange, Jean-Charles Reynier et al.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a chronic and disabling disease that currently has no fully effective therapeutic solution. Complementary approaches, such as relaxation, sport, or meditation, could be therapeutic aids for symptom reduction. Scuba diving combines sport and mindfulness training and has been found to have a positive effect on chronic stress and PTSD. The first objective...
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
2022
Anne Malaktaris, Caitlin L Mclean, Sheetal Mallavarapu et al.
There is increasing support for the use of meditation-based treatments for US military Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Mantram Repetition Program (MRP), which is a portable meditative practice that features mindful repetition of a sacred phrase, is associated with significant reductions in PTSD symptom severity. Although regular practice is emphasized in meditation-based...
Explore
2022
José I Latorre, María Y Vellisca
Thousands of people throughout the world are convinced that they have been abducted by aliens. We aimed to assess the emotional reaction to such an implausible event and propose some explanations alternative to severe psychopathology. A total of 19 individuals who reported memories of having been abducted by aliens were compared to a control group of 32 participants. We employed a battery of...
Global Advances in Health and Medicine
2022
R. J. Schulz-Heik, Laura C. Lazzeroni, Beatriz Hernandez et al.
Background Valued living is the extent to which an individual’s behavior is consistent with what they believe is important or good. It is unknown whether many complementary and integrative treatments and psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder enhance valued living, and for whom. Objectives Measure within- and between-group changes in valued living in Veterans who completed cognitive...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2022
Shannon Dames, Pamela Kryskow, Crosbie Watler
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Corrigendum: A Cohort-Based Case Report: The Impact of Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Embedded in a Community of Practice Framework for Healthcare Providers with PTSD and DepressionError in Figure/TableIn the published article, there was an error in Figure 2 as published. The PTSD label on the legend that is imbedded in the figure was on the legend component of the figure was posted on the anxiety...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2022
Joshua Willms, Ben McCauley, Lindsay Kerr et al.
Suicide is the most common cause of death in male resident physicians and the second most common cause of death in resident physicians overall. Physicians also experience high rates of major depressive disorder (MDD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and burnout. These conditions frequently develop during medical school, and threaten not only physicians but the patients they care for. A...