PTSD News

Mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy led to greater improvement in PTSD symptom severity than present-centered group therapy among veterans with PTSD.

Avoidant coping strategies predicted PTSD symptom severity among individuals who made decisions for adult family members in the ICU, according to results from a longitudinal correlational study.

Rates of depression and PTSD increased following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and remain elevated, according to study findings in Lancet.

Attention control training balancing attention allocation between threat and neutral stimuli improved PTSD symptoms among two different study cohorts of veterans from Israel Defense Forces and the U.S. military.

More than 40 years after the Vietnam War, approximately 271,000 Vietnam theater veterans have current PTSD in addition to subthreshold war-zone PTSD, and of these, one-third also have comorbid major depressive disorder.

Cedars-Sinai has granted $50,000 to Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services to provide mental health care for minors with trauma who recently immigrated to the U.S.

Benzodiazepines are ineffective for treatment and prevention of PTSD and thus should be considered relatively contraindicated for patients with PTSD, according to results from a systematic review.

Individuals with psychiatric problems in childhood were more likely to have problems functioning in adulthood, according to study findings in JAMA Psychiatry.

Virtual reality job interview training increased the likelihood of receiving a job offer among patients and veterans with severe mental illness, according to study findings in Psychiatric Services.

Two recently published studies identified specific environmental factors that predicted depression, anxiety and PTSD among low-income black and Hispanic Americans and developed a screening tool for clinical assessment based on those factors.