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View Post: Marijuana May Help Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Patients, Stress ...
5 Nov 2009 by Deborah Mitchell  
Nearly 7.7 million Americans have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at any given time, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, which also notes that about 30 percent of men and women who have spent time in war zones ...
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View Post: Berman Post: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is Not Contagious
7 Nov 2009 by Andrew Berman  
Some people are excusing or explaining Major Nidal Malik Hasan Fort Hood shooting on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Slight problem with that analysis, Hasan did not see combat as he was not deployed and PTSD is not contagious. ...
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View Post: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Tied to Genetics, Cardiac Risks ...
6 Nov 2009
6 (HealthDay News) -- Genetics contribute to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which in turn is associated with patient-reported cardiovascular health and quality of life, according to two studies in the November issue of the ...
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View Post: PTSD in the News: Weekly Roundup
PTSD in the News
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View Blog: According to Research: Rape “more traumatic than terrorism” - Victims of rape suffer from higher levels of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) than victims of war or terror, a new study reveals.

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View Post: The RFP Database: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Treatment ...
2 Nov 2009 by webmaster@rfpdb.com (The RFP Database)  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Treatment Monitoring Tool. Find RFPs without any subscription fees or commissions. Looking for RFP opportunities to bid on, a place to publicize your RFP, or sample RFPs? This is your destination for ...
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View Post: Mindfulness Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD ...
1 Nov 2009 by Peter Strong, Ph.D.  
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be defined as recurrent episodes of anxiety and panic reactions triggered by memories of a past trauma. A trauma in this context is an experience that is overwhelming at both the sensory and ...
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View Post: Ed Driscoll » You Down With PPTSD?
11 hours ago by Ed Driscoll  
“The most common disorder linked to combat stress is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can develop after exposure to one or more traumatic events that threatened or caused great physical harm.” Media worldwide grabbed hold of ...
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View Post: Post-traumatic stress disorder plagues war veterans after they ...
29 Oct 2009 by Jacky Guerrero  
Two years after returning home from Operation Iraqi Freedom I have experienced the ins and outs of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as I cope with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Last year I was diagnosed with PTSD and ...
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View Post: PhilanTopic: Sunk Costs and the Need for Social Innovation
6 Nov 2009 by Mitch Nauffts  
The federally funded Veterans Affairs (VA) system offers a largely ineffective thirty-day Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) support program that leaves most of the young men and women who complete it with persistently high levels of ...
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View Post: Aversive Imagery in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Trauma ...
30 Oct 2009 by Lisa M. McTeague, Peter J. Lang, Marie-Claude...  
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized as a disorder of exaggerated defensive physiological arousal. The novel aim of the present research was to investigate within PTSD a potential dose-response relationship between past ...
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