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Combat, Trauma and Healing PTSD: A Collection of Educational Videos for Caregivers and Patients
"Some top notch educational combat trauma and PTSD programming is available online. Here are a few, specifically aiming their education at the patient/counselor level."
Physorg | Birds in captivity lose hippocampal mass
"The findings also complement evidence from imaging and clinical studies in humans and other mammals that link depression and PTSD with decreased hippocampal volume.
In those studies, researchers had no way of knowing which came first: environmental stress that caused the hippocampus to shrink, or an inherently smaller hippocampus that predisposed certain individuals to depression or PTSD under stressful conditions."
Psychiatric Times | What Should Count as a Mental Disorder in DSM-V?
What exactly is a “mental disorder”? For that matter, what criteria should determine whether any condition is a “disease” or a “disorder”? Is “disease” something like an oak tree—a physical object you can bump into or put your arms around? Or are terms like “disease” and “disorder” merely abstract, value-laden constructs, akin to “injustice” and “immorality”? Are categories of disease and disorder fundamentally different in psychiatry than in other medical specialties? And—by the way—how do the terms “disease,” “disorder,” “syndrome,” “malady,” “sickness,” and “illness” differ?
Anyone who believes there are easy or certain answers to these questions is either in touch with the Divine Mind, or out of touch with reality. To appreciate the complexity and ambiguity in this conceptual arena, consider this quote from the venerable Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry:
"The term 'mental illness' is probably best used for those disorders that are intuitively most like bodily illness (or disease) and, yet, mental rather than bodily. This of course implies everything that is built into the mind-brain problem!"1(p11)
In a single sentence, we are already grappling with the terms “illness,” “disorder,” and “disease,” not to mention Cartesian psychology! And yet—daunting though these issues are—they are central to the practical task now before the DSM-V committees: figuring out what conditions ought to be included as psychiatric disorders.
news @ nature.com - Trauma may make the brain grow old - Stress seems to trigger memory problems later in life.
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A bout of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may do damage to the brain that kick-starts memory problems, scientists have discovered. Even patients who had recovered from a period of stress started to get age-related memory difficulties about a decade earlier than non-traumatized people
VA to Keep Using DSM To Diagnose PTSD in Vets -- Levin 41 (14): 1 -- Psychiatric News
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A government-requested report says there is no need to change
DSM-IV criteria for diagnosing posttraumatic stress disorder when
evaluating veterans for the disorder.
MND: » Alleged US Atrocities in Iraq Lead to Investigations, Speculation
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At Yale University Medical School, Psychiatrist Deane Aikins is working on a research project with the U.S. Army to determine the impact of stress on soldiers. The study is still in its early stages, but he says he has already determined, through brain imaging, that some soldiers physically deal with the stress of battle better than others.
Inside Bay Area - Veterans to test stress treatment
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A drug used for years to treat tuberculosis has been shown to alleviate symptoms of post-traumatic stress, and Bay Area researchers are now seeking to test its effectiveness in returning war veterans.
WebWire® | Researchers at Emory Will Investigate a New Treatment for Iraq War Veterans with PTSD
- Emory University researchers will embark on a study they hope will enhance the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and help soldiers who are affected get better faster. - mrsilona on 2006-07-05
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