Topic: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

ArticlesBase | 2010-01-23 00:11:09
Author: altruist

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is real illness and affects people in different ways. It is caused after seeing or living through a traumatic or dangerous event. Veterans of war often suffer with PTSD because of the war time environment and the horrors they have to endure.

"Trauma" refers to the impact of an event or series of ...

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isnare | 2010-01-20 23:27:26

Have you lived through a scary or dangerous event? Do you've a few of the following problems?

?Feeling like the event is happening again

?Trouble sleeping or nightmares

?Not feeling about people

?Becoming easy angered

?Feeling guilty because other people died when you lived

If so, you might have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Events that might cause PTSD include ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-01-20 18:24:54

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have discovered a distinct pattern of brain activity in people with post traumatic stress disorder that may give doctors an objective way to test for it, they said on Wednesday. Using a brain imaging device called magnetoencephalography, which measures how the brain processes information, a team at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis VA ...

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AP News | 2010-01-13 21:01:33
Study: Quickly giving wounded troops morphine cuts the risk of developing PTSD

Quickly giving morphine to wounded troops cuts in half the chance they will develop post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a provocative study that suggests a new strategy for preventing the psychological fallout of war. Researchers at the U.S. Naval Health Research Center led the study of about ...

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