PTSD News

Serious injuries sustained in combat by male soldiers from the United Kingdom were associated with poor mental health outcomes, and the type of injury influenced the severity of the outcome, per a study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

Repeated media-based exposures to hurricanes were linked to increasing mental health symptoms among Florida residents who experienced hurricanes Irma and Michael, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Pre-enlistment as well as immediate post-enlistment mental health status may help identify suicide risk in soldiers both with and without prior mental health diagnoses, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

More than half of a cohort of patients with rheumatic or musculoskeletal diseases reported experiencing some post-traumatic stress outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data presented at the EULAR 2022 Congress.

NEW ORLEANS – The American Psychiatric Association DSM steering committee gathered at the APA annual meeting to review proposed changes to the manual, committee chair Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, said.

NEW ORLEANS – A number of new treatments are on the horizon for PTSD, making the future bright for patients with this condition, Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD, said at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

NEW ORLEANS – Healio/Psychiatry peer perspective board member Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH, discussed the mental health of female veterans, or “invisible veterans,” at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

NEW ORLEANS – Psychiatrists who identify a patient at risk for committing violence should work with other subject matter professionals to determine the protective factors that can help reduce that person’s risk, Jack S. Rozel, MD, MSL, said.

NEW ORLEANS — Higher levels of depression, anxiety and PTSD were reported by Lebanese expatriates following explosions in Beirut in 2020, according to a speaker at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, issued an advisory addressing the alarming rate of burnout among health care workers.