The goal of the paper is to show that an impasse in PTSD therapy in veterans of combat missions abroad may be connected with the occurrence of previous traumatic events. Symptoms that originally seemed to be those resulting from a war trauma, actually had had their source in personalities of the patients and their previous traumatic experiences, not related to combat stress. Identification, ana...

Trauma to the toes, lesser metatarsals, and their respective joints involves various mechanisms and injury types (1, 2). These include a history of both direct and indirect trauma. Patients may exhibit symptoms acutely at the time of trauma or at a later onset. Symptoms include pain, swelling, discoloration, loss of joint motion, and difficulty standing and/or walking. An accurate history of th...

This study examined the efficacy of a condensed version of the Seeking Safety intervention in the reduction of trauma-related symptoms and improved drug abstinence rates among women in residential chemical dependence treatment. One hundred and four women were randomly assigned to treatment including a condensed (six session) Seeking Safety intervention or the standard chemical dependence interv...

The study explores the effects of gender discrimination GD as type III trauma in 359, (160 females and 199 males) torture survivors. Data includes measures of GD and other traumas, PTSD and cumulative trauma disorders CTD. GD found to decrease PTSD symptoms in males favoring mental health status of males, and increase CTD symptoms in females. GD mediated the effects of personal identity traumas...

CONTEXT The serotonin transporter (SLC6A4) has been associated with several stress-related syndromes including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The ability to detect meaningful associations is largely dependent on reliable measures of preexisting trauma. OBJECTIVE To study the association of genetic variants within SLC6A4 with acute and posttraumatic stress symptoms in a civilian cohort ...

INTRODUCTION Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be associated with physical inactivity, a modifiable lifestyle factor that contributes to risk of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases; however, no study has evaluated the association between PTSD onset and subsequent physical activity (PA) changes. METHOD Analyses were conducted between October 2014 and April 2016, using data from t...

BACKGROUND The role of gender in posttraumatic cognitions has increasingly been approached. The current study comparatively evaluates posttraumatic cognitions in men and women exposed to specific nonsexual trauma (motor vehicle accidents, work - related accidents, burns). METHODS Posttraumatic cognitions and posttraumatic stress symptoms were comparatively assessed in 53 men and 37 women trea...

BACKGROUND Consequences of war-related traumatisation have mostly been investigated in military and predominant male populations, while research on female civilian victims of war has been neglected. Furthermore, research of post-war posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in women has rarely included early-life trauma in their prediction models, so the contribution of trauma in childhood and early...

OBJECTIVE There were two aims to this study: first to examine whether emotional abuse and neglect are significant predictors of psychological and somatic symptoms, and lifetime trauma exposure in women presenting to a primary care practice, and second to examine the strength of these relationships after controlling for the effects of other types of childhood abuse and trauma. METHOD Two-hundr...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a form of trauma that can result in significant mental health distress for victims. Rates of clinical depression and posttraumatic stress disorder are higher among abused versus non-abused women, particularly if victims have experienced other lifetime trauma. While there are numerous interventions designed to reduce trauma-induced mental health symptoms, most ...