PTSD News

Recent findings indicated the Warrior Combat Stress Reset Program reduced PTSD symptoms among active-duty military personnel.

The Genecept Assay, a genetic test for mental health treatment, was recently approved by the General Services Administration for use in veterans and active military personnel.

LGBT youth who experienced steadily high or increasing levels of victimization from adolescence to early adulthood had increased risk for depression and PTSD.

Cohen Veterans Bioscience recently announced two collaborative partnerships to provide research tools for understanding underlying neurobiology and genetics of PTSD and traumatic brain injury.

Prolonged grief and posttraumatic stress symptoms were reported among approximately half of family members following sudden cardiac death of a relative.

Wolters Kluwer recently announced the release of a mobile version of the PTSD toolkit from the American Nurses Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

An adapted mindfulness-based stress reduction program effectively reduced stress and trauma symptoms among urban middle school students, according to recent findings.

Recent findings showed certain enemy combat tactics significantly increased risk for PTSD among male veterans of the Iraqi war, while risk among female veterans was not affected.

As 2015 comes to a close, Healio.com/Psychiatry reviewed at the most popular research on PTSD within the past year.

Functional MRI analysis indicated veterans with PTSD exhibited fear generalization biased to higher emotional stimuli than the original conditioned fear stimulus.