PTSD News

U.S. veterans who had at least two nightmares a week were more likely to report having one of several cardiovascular conditions, data show.

A combination of yoga, tai chi and meditation was linked to significant mental and physical health improvements among veterans, according to study results published in Medical Care.

Cannabidiol appeared to increase cerebral blood flow to brain regions involved in memory processing, according to results of an MRI study published in Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Severe posttraumatic stress symptoms created pathways to seeking help among some Black men who survived exposure to trauma, according to study results published in Journal of Traumatic Stress.

Exposure therapy did not appear to increase substance use or other psychiatric symptoms among individuals with PTSD and comorbid substance use disorder, according to study results published in Journal of Traumatic Stress.

Dialectical behavior therapy and cognitive processing therapy appeared to improve PTSD symptoms among women who survived childhood abuse, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Prazosin, approved in the 1970s to control hypertension and used off-label to eliminate PTSD-related nightmares, was recently shown to prevent post-traumatic headaches in veterans in a small randomized controlled trial.

Patients with PTSD had similar levels of major depressive disorder response and remission with transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, as patients without PTSD, according to study findings published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

An algorithm may be able to predict the likelihood of trauma survivors developing PTSD, according to results of a study published in Nature Medicine.

Patients with major depressive disorder and comorbid PTSD who were unresponsive to antidepressant treatment exhibited a positive response to three “next-step” treatments, according to a study published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.