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Cognitive behavioral therapy may improve outcomes for anxiety-related disorders compared with control conditions up to 1 year after treatment completion, according to results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry. Beyond 1 year, effects vary by specific disorder, researchers noted.

Firearm injuries affect victims far beyond mortality and economic burden, according to results of a prospective cohort study published in JAMA Surgery.

Both subthreshold and threshold PTSD are associated with bingeeating symptoms in men and women, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

In 2017, the suicide rate for U.S. veterans was 1.5 times the rate for non-veteran adults, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Findings from a study conducted among more than 144,000 people in Sweden indicated that post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and other stress-related disorders are associated with a subsequent risk for life-threatening infections, including meningitis, endocarditis and sepsis.

Mood disorders, PTSD and anxiety disorders share brain phenotypes that may serve as targets for interventions, according to results of a meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Young adults who develop PTSD have a greater risk for transient ischemic attack and ischemic stroke, independent of established risk factors, coexisting psychiatric disorders and health care utilization, according to findings published in Stroke.

SAN DIEGO — Rick Doblin, PhD, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), discussed the potential of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD in a video interview.

Researchers identified parental PTSD as a predictor of psychiatric morbidity among the offspring of refugees, according to a study published in Lancet Public Health.

Using a novel blood-based biomarker panel, researchers detected warzone-related PTSD in male combat veterans with 81% accuracy and 77% specificity.