PTSD News

Patients with PTSD or bipolar disorder reported significant improvement with consultation of primary care physicians or treatment by telepsychiatrists, according to a JAMA Psychiatry study.

Various COVID-19 stressors negatively impacted health anxiety among refugees and asylum seekers in Australia, according to findings published in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology.

Patients with PTSD demonstrated a two-fold higher likelihood of being diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus, compared to those without PTSD, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Study results published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry indicated that suicidal behaviors were common among U.S. veterans, especially among young veterans.

Up to nearly one-fourth of participants of a longitudinal study conducted in Italy exhibited clinically relevant PTSD symptoms during the first 9 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Experiences of racial discrimination appeared linked to disproportionately greater response in brain regions related to emotion regulation, fear inhibition and visual attention among Black women.

Computerized adaptive assessment tools for veterans with PTSD produced valid screening diagnoses and severity scores, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Longer time since trauma was associated with larger symptom reductions among patients with PTSD, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Healio Psychiatry has compiled a list of its five most-viewed stories in June.

Most public health workers reported symptoms of one or more mental health conditions between the end of March and mid-April, according to survey results published in MMWR.