Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Patients with Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder

P5: A Review of Memory Cognitive Function in Patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Memory impairment is one of the main features of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),There are multiple studies in memory impairment and cognitive function such as memory in a variety of explicit memory, implicit, procedural, active, declarative, revermid ,working, visual, false and autobiographical. The methodology of systematic review were, meta-analyzes and controlled studies of sites Med ...

Therapist fidelity with an exposure-based treatment of PTSD in adults with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.

This study examined therapists' fidelity to a manualized, multicomponent cognitive-behavioral intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including exposure therapy, among public sector patients with a psychotic disorder. Independent raters assessed therapists' competence and adherence, rating 20% of randomly selected audio taped sessions (n=57 sessions, coded by two raters, with str...

Screening for trauma histories, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and subthreshold PTSD in psychiatric outpatients.

The ability of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) module's screening question to identify individuals with PTSD or subthreshold PTSD was examined. First, the screen's sensitivity for detecting a trauma history was determined. Second, the incremental validity of a more thorough trauma assessment was examined by determining how many individual...

Editorial: Trauma, Psychosis and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Hippocampus and amygdala volumes in patients with borderline personality disorder with or without posttraumatic stress disorder.

BACKGROUND Several studies have investigated volumetric brain changes in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD). Both groups exhibit volume reductions of the hippocampus and amygdala. Our aim was to investigate the influence of comorbid PTSD on hippocampus and amygdala volumes in patients with BPD. METHODS We compared 2 groups of unmedicat...