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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry May 20, 2010 Greg Been, Vikas Garg 11 citations
A 39-year-old male presented on 14 December to the emergency department with a history of five suicide attempts in the previous week. He had three previous admissions to psychiatric wards with vary...
European Psychiatry 2010 Sang Bok Lee
Aim The objective of this study was to differentiate ordinary dreams from traumatic and PTSD-related dreams, by using The Sang Bok Lee Neurocognitive Dream Orientation Scales assessing the narrative dream contents. Methods 1248 dreams were collected from 416 Korean college students, Yongin, South Korea - 198 males (M age=20.46 years, SD=1.32) and 218 females (M age=20.17, SD=1.26). The...
Journal of Aggression Maltreatment & Trauma July 23, 2009 Gerlinde C. Harb, Joan M. Cook, Philip Gehrman et al. 42 citations
A substantial proportion of returnees from the Iraq war have significant psychological symptoms related to war zone exposure, including high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), nightmares, and sleep disturbances. This pilot investigation examined the feasibility and efficacy of a promising cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) for nightmares, Imagery Rehearsal, combined with CBT for...
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry September 2008 James S Gordon, Julie K Staples, Afrim Blyta et al.
To determine whether participation in a mind-body skills group program based on psychological self-care, mind-body techniques, and self-expression decreases symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Eighty-two adolescents meeting criteria for PTSD according to the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (which corresponds with 16 of the 17 diagnostic criteria for PTSD in DSM-IV) were randomly...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs September 1, 2008 José Carlos Bouso, Rick Doblin, Magı́ Farré et al. 206 citations
The purpose of this study was to investigate the safety of different doses of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy administered in a psychotherapeutic setting to women with chronic PTSD secondary to a sexual assault, and also to obtain preliminary data regarding efficacy. Although this study was originally planned to include 29 subjects, political pressures led to the closing of the study before it...
Journal of Anxiety Disorders August 28, 2008 Anka A Vujanovic, Nicole E Youngwirth, Kirsten A Johnson et al.
The present investigation examined the incremental predictive validity of mindfulness-based processes, indexed by the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills, in relation to posttraumatic stress symptom severity among individuals without any axis I psychopathology. Participants included 239 adults who endorsed exposure to traumatic life events. Results indicated that the Accepting without...
Journal of Traumatic Stress August 1, 2008 Charles E Thompson, Fletcher B. Taylor, M. McFall et al.
Twenty-two veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were assessed for trauma-related nightmares (NM) and non-nightmare distressed awakenings (NNDA) before and after treatment with the alpha-1 adrenoreceptor antagonist prazosin at an average bedtime dose of 9.6 mg/day. Ratings combining frequency and intensity dimensions of NM decreased from 3.6 ± 2.6 to 2.2 ± 2.4 (p<0.05), NNDA from...
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry August 15, 2007 Lynne J. Lamarche, Joseph De Koninck 174 citations
OBJECTIVE: To present a critical review of the literature and research on sleep difficulties in adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), more specifically the existing treatment options, and to formulate recommendations regarding future treatment approaches and research related to sleep and PTSD. DATA SOURCES: The following databases were consulted: PsycInfo (1872-2006) and MEDLINE...
Journal of Traumatic Stress June 1, 2007 Tracy L. Simpson, D Kaysen, Sarah Bowen et al.
The present study evaluated whether Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptom severity was associated with participation and treatment outcomes comparing a Vipassana meditation course to treatment as usual in an incarcerated sample. This study utilizes secondary data. The original study demonstrated that Vipassana meditation is associated with reductions in substance use. The present study...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine March 1, 2007 Alex Hankey
In the form of the Transcendental Meditation program CAM offers a method of eliminating deep-rooted stress, the efficacy of which has been demonstrated in several related studies. Any discussion of CAM and post-traumatic stress disorder should include a study of its application to Vietnam War Veterans in which improvements were observed on all variables, and several participants were able to...