Military mental health services should urgently adopt an internationally recognized trauma questionnaire to better diagnose and treat veterans with complex post-traumatic stress disorder, a new study ...

In a study published in the February 2018 issue of the journal Depression & Anxiety, researchers in the United Kingdom reported on a survey of 1,946 adults. Participants with at least one psychiatric ...

Let’s recap Parts I and II. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is fairly common. Yet, historically professionals have been slow to acknowledge that PTSD can exist, especially in youths. Studies have ...

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Hyperarousal plays an important role in mental disorders. It influences the severity of insomnia, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and ADHD. Yet it is striking that ...

Trials on veterans suggest the potent hallucinogen could provide a new treatment for PTSD, but scientists still don't know how it works.