BACKGROUND: A proportion of subjects with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) are unresponsive to specialized psychotherapy, but a biological basis for this has …

Objective The objective of this study was to obtain longitudinal data on lability of cortisol
levels in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because previous studies have largely been …

Preclinical studies show that animals with a history of chronic stress exposure have
increased hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis reactivity following reexposure to …

Objective The authors' objective was to compare the urinary cortisol excretion of Holocaust
survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)(N= 22) to that of Holocaust survivors …

Whereas trauma‐associated arousal has been linked fairly consistently with elevations in
both glucocorticoids and catecholamines, neuroendocrine correlates of hyperarousal in the …

BACKGROUND: Studies of cortisol in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have yielded
mixed results. We hypothesize that personality traits and traumatic experiences could be the …

Studies investigating cortisol responses to trauma-related stressors in patients with
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have yielded inconsistent results, demonstrating that …

Several clinical studies suggest that individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
experience neuroendocrine system alterations, resulting in significantly lower plasma …

The following study tested the hypothesis that women with post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) related to childhood sexual abuse would display elevated norepinephrine-to-cortisol …

To investigate the longitudinal course of mean 24‐hour urinary cortisol excretion in
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the authors evaluated 24‐hour cortisol excretion in 28 …