Traumatic events are common, but posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is relatively rare.
These facts have prompted several questions: What variables increase risk for PTSD among …

The benefits of providing early intervention for people recently exposed to trauma have
highlighted the need to develop means to identify people who will develop chronic …

Recent well-conducted biological studies in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) have documented and replicated a wide range of findings that characterize the …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) describes a syndrome in which a trauma survivor
experiences an inability to get the event out of his/her mind. The symptoms of PTSD were …

Objective Traumatic experiences cause considerable suffering and place a burden on
society due to lost productivity, increases in suicidality, violence, criminal behavior, and …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a pathological response to a traumatic event. A
number of risk and vulnerability factors predicting PTSD development have been identified …

Background Most individuals exposed to a traumatic event do not develop post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD), although many individuals may experience sub-clinical levels of …

Much of the early research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was based on the
assumption that PTSD is a natural consequence of trauma exposure. However, a growing …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a fairly common psychiatric disorder that is
associated with a lifetime prevalence of approximately 9% in the United States. In light of …

Peritraumatic reactions such as fear, psychic and somatoform dissociation, tonic immobility,
data-driven processing, and mental defeat are important in the etiology of posttraumatic …