Military Medicine
March 1, 2018
Valerie J Rice, Baoxia Liu, Paul J Schroeder
Mindfulness meditation training has been shown to reduce stress and improve short-term memory for military personnel. However, no studies have investigated the effects of in-person and virtual world (VW) mindfulness training on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms. In this study, U.S. military active duty service members and veterans...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
February 1, 2018
Robin E Cushing, Kathryn L Braun
About one-third of service members returning from post-9/11 deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq report combat-related mental health conditions, but many do not seek conventional treatment. Mind-body therapies have been offered as alternative approaches to decreasing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but no review of studies with veterans of post-9/11 operations was found. The objective of...
Psychopharmacology
February 1, 2018
John Hartberg, Simone Garrett-Walcott, Angelo De Gioannis
66 citations
Depressive episodes are the leading cause of mental health-related hospital admissions in Australia, and 44% of those admitted have a previous history of hospitalisations for depression (Admitted patient mental health-related care: (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Aust Hospital Stat 2011-12, 2013). Despite numerous available antidepressant treatments, many patients do not respond to...
Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
January 6, 2018
Sascha Thal, Miriam J. J. Lommen
59 citations
The present paper discusses the current literature with regard to substance-assisted psychotherapy with Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The aim of the paper is to give a comprehensive overview of the development from MDMA's early application in psychotherapy to its present and future role in the treatment of PTSD. It is further attempted to...
Biofeedback
2018
Yuval Oded
5 citations
Teaching mindfulness skills as part of psychological rehabilitation for PTSD patients can be highly beneficial. However, certain factors must be considered such as determining at what stage of therapy to introduce mindfulness training, the length of the practices, and the focal point of the training (e.g., attention, open focus, loving kindness). This article will address these considerations...
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
2018
Jenna E Boyd, Alina Protopopescu, Charlene O'Connor et al.
ABSTRACT Background: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is associated with significant functional impairment in important areas, including interpersonal relationships and occupational or educational roles. Preliminary evidence suggests that the dissociative subtype of PTSD (PTSD+DS), characterized by marked symptoms of depersonalization and derealization, is associated with increased...
Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology
2018
Dejan Stevanovic, Leposava Brajkovic, Madhur Kumar Srivastava et al.
Accumulated evidence indicates that exposure to trauma is associated with the development of cognitive impairments and psychiatric symptoms in children and adolescents. In this case study of a female adolescent of 17 years, we aimed to evaluate how cortical positron emission tomography (PET) abnormalities relate to psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES) dissociative state, post-traumatic...
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
2018
Christina Sophia Albott, Kelvin O Lim, Miriam K Forbes et al.
The present study examined the efficacy, safety, and durability of repeated ketamine infusions for the treatment of comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD) in a sample of veterans. Individuals with comorbid DSM-5-defined PTSD and DSM-IV-defined major depressive disorder (N = 15) received 6 intravenous ketamine infusions (0.5 mg/kg) on a...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2018
Jeffrey R Bishop, Adam M Lee, Lauren J Mills et al.
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an effective non-pharmacologic treatment for veterans with PTSD. Extensive work has identified epigenetic factors related to PTSD disease risk and pathophysiology, but how these factors influence treatment response is unclear. Serotonin signaling and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning may be perturbed in PTSD and are molecular...
Military Medicine
2018
Robert E Herron, Brian Rees
Current treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are only partially effective. This study evaluated whether an extensively researched stress reduction method, the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique, can reduce the PTSD symptoms of veterans. Previous research suggested that TM practice can decrease veterans' PTSD symptoms. A one-group pretest-posttest design was used to...