PTSD
Conference Coverage
Sibling abuse more common than child, domestic abuse combined
AUSTIN, TEX. – Emotional aggression among brothers and sisters occurs more often than does physical aggression, literature review shows.
Commentary
Veterans are not ‘ticking time bombs’
What Your Patients are Hearing
Myths debunked around guns, mental illness, and video games
Is the rate of mental illness eight times higher in the United States as in the European Union?
What Your Patients are Hearing
Interacting with horses helps veterans with PTSD; Identical twin battles anorexia
Warrior Outreach’s Horsemanship Program seeks to support veterans, service members, and their families.
Video
Childhood abuse linked with tripled adult SLE incidence
Women who self reported a high level of childhood abuse had nearly triple the rate of systemic lupus erythematosus as adults.
Evidence-Based Reviews
PTSD: A systematic approach to diagnosis and treatment
Accurate diagnosis and management depends on proper application of DSM-5 criteria.
Conference Coverage
Ketamine infusions may be helpful in central sensitization pain syndromes
Savvy Psychopharmacology
Treating comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular disease
Mr. S, 64, has a history of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which has been well controlled for the past 15 years with cognitive-processing...
Commentary
Focus on symptoms over stories is detrimental to separated families
Dr. Nicolas Badre and Dr. Francesca Lehman say “complex PTSD” as defined by the updated ICD-11 will better capture the scope of patients’ trauma...
Pearls
FIGHT to remember PTSD
Certain clinical features of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear in other psychiatric diagnoses and therefore can confound accurate...
Commentary
Puerto Rico after Maria: Trauma team returns
The aim of the team is to “train the trainers” with the goal of fostering resilience among the children.