The self and attachment difficulties associated with chronic childhood abuse and other forms of pervasive trauma must be understood and addressed in the context of the therapeutic relationship for healing to extend beyond resolution of traditional psychiatric symptoms and skill deficits. The authors integrate contemporary research and theory about attachment and complex developmental trauma, in...

There is renewed interest in the relationship between early childhood trauma and risk of psychosis in adulthood. There are a large number of studies of psychiatric inpatients, and of outpatients in which a majority have a psychotic disorder, that suggest the prevalence of childhood trauma in these populations is high. However, these are generally small studies of diagnostically heterogeneous an...

OBJECTIVE This meta-analysis systematically examined the association of reported psychological trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with functional somatic syndromes including fibromyalgia, chronic widespread pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, temporomandibular disorder, and irritable bowel syndrome. Our goals were to determine the overall effect size of the association and to examine m...

Odontogenic cysts are pathological cavities enclosed by fibrous connective tissue and lined with epithelial that develops from odontogenic tissues in the maxilla mandible's tooth-bearing regions. Trauma or tooth caries is main cause of radicular periapical cysts. Pulp necrosis outcome dental irritating pulp cavity. Once infection has reached root's tip, it causes periodontitis, which may lead t...

Traumatic brain injury often leads to epileptic seizures. Among other factors, homeostatic synaptic plasticity (HSP) mediates posttraumatic epileptogenesis through unbalanced synaptic scaling, partially compensating for the trauma-incurred loss of neural excitability. HSP is mediated in part by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), which is released locally from reactive astrocytes early after tr...

BACKGROUND In chronic PTSD, a preattentive neural alarm system responds rapidly to emotional information, leading to increased prefrontal cortex (PFC) activation at early processing stages (<100 ms). Enhanced PFC responses are followed by a reduction in occipito-temporal activity during later processing stages. However, it remains unknown if this neuronal pattern is a result of a long lasting m...

Introduction: Any opacity of lens is defined as cataract. This leads to reduced vision that is the most common cause of blindness in the world in among the elderly. There is no non-surgical treatment for cataract patients; thereby, patients have to spend a lot of money especially those residing in the undeveloped countries. It is thus necessary to be informed of predisposing factors in order to...

BACKGROUND Prenatal stress affects immunocompetence in offspring, although the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. OBJECTIVE We sought to examine associations between maternal lifetime interpersonal trauma (IPT) and cord blood total IgE levels in a sample of urban newborns (n = 478). METHODS Maternal IPT during childhood and adolescence (birth to 17 years), adulthood (18 years to...

291 with the trauma. BCC is a very common disease entity. Therefore, based on the recognition of major skin trauma or wounds, patients spontaneously consider the BCC to have occurred in association with the trauma. However, there is no actual correlation between the two phenomena [3]. 2) The skin becomes more vulnerable to UV exposure because of the atrophy and decreased perfusion in the trauma...

Spontaneous Ischemic Infarction of the Spinal Cord with Traumatic Sequela • What is believed to have been spontaneous infarction of the spinal cord is reported in two individuals with known chronic cardiovascular disease apparently causing paraparesis while driving motor vehicles. Although blunt trauma to the spinal cord cannot be ruled out, there was no objective evidence of such. The history ...