BACKGROUND A significant proportion of trauma survivors experience an additional critical life event in the aftermath. These renewed experiences of traumatic and stressful life events may lead to an increase in trauma-related mental health symptoms. METHOD In a longitudinal study, the effects of renewed experiences of a trauma or stressful life event were examined. For this purpose, refugees ...

Trauma and stressor related disorders include disorders in which exposure to a traumatic or stressful event is listed explicitly as a diagnostic criterion. These include reactive attachment disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), acute stress disorder, and adjustment disorders. Psychological distress following exposure to a traumatic or stressful event is quite variable. In some cases, ...

OBJECTIVE Although the intergenerational transmission of family violence has been well documented, the mechanisms responsible for this effect have not been fully determined. The present study examined whether trauma symptoms mediate the relationship between a childhood history of child physical abuse (CPA) and adult CPA risk, and whether any such mediation was similar for women and men. METHO...

Suicidality is highly prevalent in patients at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis. Childhood adversities and trauma are generally predictive of suicidality. However, the differential effects of adversity/trauma-domains and CHR-criteria, i.e., ultra-high risk and basic symptom criteria, on suicidality remain unclear. Furthermore, the underlying mechanisms and, thus, worthwhile targets for su...

BACKGROUND It is likely that alcohol use and abuse increase during and after violent conflicts. The most prominent explanation of this phenomenon has been referred to as self-medication hypothesis. It predicts that psychotropic substances are consumed to deal with conflict-related psychic strains and trauma. In northern Uganda, a region that has been affected by a devastating civil war and is c...

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) serve as a risk factor for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in those who experience additional adult trauma. However, while some individuals with ACEs develop severe PTSD symptoms following exposure to trauma, others do not. We propose that updating prior knowledge the face of new inconsistent information may account these individual differenc...

It is well established that PTSD may develop following a traumatic experience such as war combat. In addition it has been noted that such trauma may lead to symptoms of psychosis. Childhood psychological abuse and sexual abuse have also been linked to psychosis. It may be the case that trauma predisposes to the development of psychosis and this can be compared to psychosis of neurodevelopmental...

Over the past decade, considerable research has linked traumatic experiences, including childhood trauma, to the development of psychotic symptoms. More recently, the concept of dissociation has been connected to psychosis, particularly auditory hallucinations, as well as to the historical conception of schizophrenia. In this workshop, Professor Andrew Moskowitz, the lead editor of ‘‘Psychosis,...

Eye trauma and blindness are common in the United States, with an incidence of over 2 million cases/year and 25 million blind adults, respectively. However, literature is surprisingly scarce on the potential confounding effect of eye trauma or blindness on the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis (MG), an autoimmune neuromuscular disease in which fluctuating ocular symptoms are the most distinguishin...