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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
In many contexts, the trauma that caused the concussion can also trigger a strong stress response. Take a focused history from the patient and collateral source for hyperarousal, nightmares, avoidance, emotional numbing, dissociation, and prior diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Assess safety. Severe PTSD can lead to suicide.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder [PDF]
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs in 5-10% of the population and is twice as common in women as in men. Although trauma exposure is the precipitating event for PTSD to develop, biological and psychosocial risk factors are increasingly viewed as predictors of symptom onset, severity and chronicity.
Yehuda, R. +9 more
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Background With the rise of fragility, conflict and violence (FCV), understanding the prevalence and risk factors associated with mental disorders is beneficial to direct aid to vulnerable groups.
I. C. Lim +6 more
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Complex post-traumatic stress disorder
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (complex PTSD) is a severe mental disorder that emerges in response to traumatic life events. Complex PTSD is characterised by three core post-traumatic symptom clusters, along with chronic and pervasive ...
A. Maercker +6 more
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Prevention of post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in healthcare workers (HCWs) facing the current COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge worldwide as HCWs are likely to experience acute and chronic, often unpredictable, occupational stressors leading to PTSS.
G. d'Ettorre +9 more
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Traumatic Stress Epigenetics [PDF]
Traumatic stress has profound impacts on many domains of life, yet the mechanisms that confer risk for or resilience to the development of traumatic stress-related psychopathologies are still very much under investigation. The current review highlights recent developments in the field of traumatic stress epigenetics in humans.Recent results reveal ...
John R, Pfeiffer +2 more
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Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a long-lasting and debilitating psychological disorder that affects a large portion of the population.
Harald Bækkelund +4 more
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Post-traumatic stress disorder following childbirth
Background Childbirth experience could be complicated and even traumatic. This study explored the possible risk factors for post-traumatic stress disorder following childbirth (PTSD-FC) in mothers and partners.
Deniz Ertan +4 more
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Warning signals? An explorative study of distant recollections of the moments before a disaster
Background: How do we remember what happened shortly before a traumatic experience? There has been little focus on the temporal context of trauma memories, but a few studies suggest that aspects of what happened in the moments prior to a traumatic ...
Ines Blix +4 more
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