Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a highly researched and conceptualized disorder, and yet it remains one of the most debilitating, widespread, and expensive disorders one can be afflicted with [Real, E., Labad, J., Alonso, P., Segalas, C., Jimenez-Murcia, S., Bueno, B., … Menchon, J. M. (2011). Stressful life events at onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder are associated with a distinct ...

BACKGROUND Prevalence rates of mental disorders are frequently increased in long-settled war refugees. However, substantial variation in prevalence rates across studies and countries remain unexplained. AIMS To test whether the same sociodemographic characteristics, war experiences and post-migration stressors are associated with mental disorders in similar refugee groups resettled in differe...

Inappropriate recollections and responses in stressful conditions are hallmarks of post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety and mood disorders, but how stress contributes to the disorders is unclear. Here we show that stress itself reactivates memories even if the memory is unrelated to the stressful experience. Forced-swim stress one day after learning enhanced memory recall. One-day p...

Dogs are known to have stress and anxiety reducing effects. Several studies have shown that dogs are able to calm people during cognitive and performance stressors. Recently, therapy dogs have been proposed as a treatment adjunct for post-traumatic stress disorder patients. In this study we aimed to investigate, whether dogs also have anxiety- and stress reducing effect during "traumatic stress...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors have proven efficacy in the treatment of panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and social anxiety disorder. Accumulating data shows that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment can also be efficacious in patients with generalized anxiety disorder. This review summarizes the findings of randomized controlled...

Purpose Exposure to deployment, combat, and other traumatic events can induce a spectrum of physical, cognitive, psychological and behavioral effects. This constellation has been termed the “Trauma Spectrum Response” (TSR) and includes depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), sleep disturbances, substance abuse, cognition, headache, pain, and spi...

human beings have always experienced disasters. a disaster may be brief,but its psychological effects may last for many years. these psychological effects are increasingly well documented.disasters affect not only those immediately involved, but also those whoknow the victims. this is perhaps particularly so when the victims arechildren. commonly when adults hear news of disasters they ask firs...

neuropsychological approach tries to link behavior with brain functions. one of the structural changes and functional disorders that is, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). this impaired memory function, learning, emotional processing and cognitive and structural changes in the brain. various aspects of neuropsychological function have been reported to be abnormal in (ptsd); however, the maj...

Anxiety disorders characterised by avoidance are among the most prevalent mental disorders. Exposure therapy is one of the key components in cognitive-behavioural treatment (CBT) for these problems. The essence of exposure therapy consists of the patients confronting the feared situation repetitively, gradually and systematically, until their anxiety is reduced. Foa and Kozak used the concept o...

This research has been conducted to compare purpose psychological symptoms post-traumatic stress in male and female patients. The sample of this study selected from two group PTSD male and female patients (each group 40 people) they were randomly chosen and matched groups by Age and IQ, when they completed WAIS-R. Also examined by Watson PTSD diagnostic interview (repetitious experience, avoida...