Topic: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Use of a class of anti-anxiety drugs fell during the past decade among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, a large U.S. study shows.The trend is encouraging, researchers say, because current guidelines recommend against using the drugs, benzodiazepines, ...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - As U.S. troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan, many are coming home with mental and emotional damage brought on by war -- and not just the human soldiers.Crews at Lackland Air Force Base, where all of the military's ...
HONOLULU (Reuters Health) - New research shows high rates of sleep disorders among veterans of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or head injuries.The study conducted at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, found ...
(Reuters) - A cancer diagnosis can leave lasting psychological scars akin to those inflicted by war, with the impact in some cases lasting for years, U.S. researchers found in a study.More than a decade after being told they had the disease, nearly ...
Marijuana administered in a timely fashion could block the development of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in rats, a new study conducted at Haifa University has found.The study, which was conducted by researchers at the university's psychology department and published in the Neuropsychopharmacology ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with post-traumatic stress disorder appear to have lower levels of a specific kind of brain chemical known as serotonin 1B, and targeting this with drugs could lead to the first treatments specifically targeting the disorder, researchers said on ...
Brief therapy to help Ugandan former child soldiers talk about their experiences showed the best results in getting rid of post-traumatic stress disorder, said a study published in the US on Tuesday.The method could be performed by local volunteers at low cost, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be at a higher risk for heart disease, with a study of U.S. war veterans finding that those with the disorder were more likely to have heart disease than their ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with post-traumatic stress disorder may be at a higher risk for heart disease, according to researchers.In a study of U.S. war veterans, they found that those with PTSD were more likely to have fatty buildup, or ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Blocking a hormone involved in the body's stress response may change the way people remember negative memories, according to a new study.But it's still unclear exactly how the drug involved works, and if the finding has implications ...
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