According to a new study, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) dramatically increases risk of premature birth. From examining 16,000 births involving US military veterans between 2000 and 2012, researchers found that having PTSD in the year before delivery increased the chance of premature birth by 35 percent. Recently, PTSD was found to be associated with an …
Previous studies have shown yoga is valuable in reducing the stress of university students, and depression, anxiety, alcoholism and PTSD in tsunami survivors, as well as helping cancer patients. Now, a new study is the first of its kind to provide scientific support for the benefits of yoga’s breathing techniques for veterans who had served …
A simple anesthetic procedure called a stellate ganglion block (SGB) has been shown to help veterans suffering from chronic, extreme post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), based on a small pilot study. This procedure is commonly used to treat a variety of symptoms and involves injecting a small amount of local anesthesia into the base of the …
People who have a mild form of stroke called a transient ischemic attack, or TIA, are at risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study found that almost one-third of people with TIA were diagnosed with PTSD later in life. TIA’s typically last just a few minutes and don’t have lasting symptoms. There are …
In the first direct comparison of the DSM-5 PTSD diagnostic criteria and the prior DSM-IV-TR, researchers have called into question the accuracy of the criteria. After comparing these in US infantry soldiers, including many soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, there was a substantial discordance between the two diagnostic criteria. These findings, “raise fundamental …
A new study finds that women with a large number of PTSD symptoms are almost three times more likely to develop a food addiction. Susan Mason, an assistant professor with the University of Minnesota division of epidemiology and community health says these findings can be very helpful to those being treated for these problems. “If …
According to a new study elderly people that have fallen down and suffered an injury may develop post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms (PTSD). Researchers found that 27 out of 100 people, over the age of 65, who had been admitted to a hospital after a fall developed PTSD symptoms. The study measured 17 symptoms of …
Post-traumatic stress disorder is difficult to diagnose, and some might be more vulnerable to it than others, so scientists have been investigating whether a blood test or biological marker can identify the mental illness. Well, researchers think they may have found one in rats. In a recent study has been published in the Proceedings of …
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