Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in ex-service personnel is associated with high levels of co-morbidity and significant functional impairment. This paper reports on predictors of treatment outcomes in UK veterans with PTSD. The sample for the study consisted of 244 participants who had received a standardised six week residential treatment programme for PTSD. The programme consisted of ind...

Though there has been a recent surge of interest in the relations between facets of mindfulness and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), there has been a dearth of empirical studies investigating the impact of changes in facets of mindfulness on PTSD treatment outcomes. The present study tested the prospective associations between pre- to post-treatment changes in facets of mindfulness and PTS...

Introduction: One of the hallmark symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the impaired extinction of traumatic memory. Single prolonged stress (SPS) has been suggested as an animal model of PTSD, since SPS rats exhibited the impaired fear extinction. Oxytocin (OXT) has been recently suggested as a potential pharmacotherapy for treatment of PTSD. In this study, using SPS rats we inve...

Co-morbidity between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders (SUD) is high and there is a need for empirically validated treatments designed to address PTSD among SUD patients. One effective PTSD treatment that may be useful in treating PTSD-SUD is exposure therapy. This paper reviews the relationship between comorbid PTSD and SUD, the basics of exposure therapy for PTS...

BACKGROUND Neurobiological models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) implicate fear processing impairments in the maintenance of the disorder. Specific deficits in extinction recall, the retention of learned extinction, have been demonstrated. While deficient extinction recall, and the associated activation pattern of prefrontal and hippocampal regions, distinguishes individuals with PTSD ...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and post-traumatic stress (PTSD) are more common in alcohol use (AUD) patients than the general population. Still, there is a lack of knowledge about relationship between two conditions these patients. The main objective this study was to examine prevalence ADHD symptoms, symptoms PTSD AUD inpatients treatment. Data from 85 were collected. Adult S...

Objective: Up to now, no investigation has applied a complementary approach in terms of the emotional and affective temperament to study Panic Disorder (PD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and healthy controls. Hence the current study aimed to investigate the affective and emotional temperaments among individuals with PD, PTSD, and healthy controls using an integrative temperament scale...


 One relevant systematic review of high methodological quality did not include any randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the effectiveness nabilone for treatment posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
 We find evidence-based guidelines use adults with PTSD.

OBJECTIVE Anticonvulsants are used in clinical practice for the treatment of PTSD. However, a systematic investigation of their effects in the treatment of PTSD is currently lacking from the literature. Our aim is to review and appraise the evidence for the use of the anticonvulsant valproate for the treatment of PTSD. METHODS We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literatu...