Tag: post traumatic stress
Child soldier trauma in Uganda shares similarities with Northern Ireland
Psychology students at Queen's University have discovered similarities between child soldier trauma in Uganda and those children caught up in Northern Ireland's Troubles.
Post-graduate students from the Doctoral Programme in Educational, Child a...
Awake despite anesthesia
Out of every 1000 patients, two at most wake up during their operation. Unintended awareness in the patient is thus classified as an occasional complication of anesthesia -- but being aware of things happening during the operation, and being able to...
Study: Abuse rates higher among deaf and hard-of-hearing children compared with...
A new study at Rochester Institute of Technology indicates that the incidence of maltreatment, including neglect and physical and sexual abuse, is more than 25 percent higher among deaf and hard-of-hearing children than among hearing youths. The res...
Drug reduces the increase in fear caused by previous traumatic experiences...
Mice previously exposed to traumatic situations demonstrate a more persistent memory of fear conditioning - acquired by associating an acoustic stimulus with an aversive stimulus - and lack the ability to inhibit this fear. This phenomenon is simila...
More than 3,000 survivors of the WTC attacks experience long-term post-traumatic...
January 6, 2010 -- Nearly 10 years after the greatest human-made disaster in U.S. history-- the destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers -- there has been little research documenting the attacks' consequences among those most directly affe...
‘Long-shot’ discovery may lead to advances in treating anxiety, memory disorders
An unexpected discovery by UCLA life scientists holds promise for the future development of treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders, and potentially for Alzheimer's disease and other memory-impairment diseases.
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MSU leads first study of resiliency on the battlefield
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- In the first combat-zone study of its kind, a research team led by Michigan State University found that soldiers with a positive outlook in the most traumatic situations were less likely to suffer health problems such a...
A third of LGBT youth suffer mental disorders
One-third of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth have attempted suicide in their lifetime -- a prevalence comparable to urban, minority youth -- but a majority do not experience mental illness, according to a report by researchers at the Un...
Neuroscience of instinct: How animals overcome fear to obtain food
When crossing a street, we look to the left and right for cars and stay put on the sidewalk if we see a car close enough and traveling fast enough to hit us before we're able to reach the other side. It's an almost automatic decision, as though w...
Consensus on TBI and PTSD will accelerate future research and improve...
St. Louis, MO, November 11, 2010 -- The November 2010 issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Official Journal of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, has published a set of 9 articles on traumatic brain injury (...
