Any effort to develop a diagnostic manual for world-wide use must grapple with the question of cross-cultural applicability. The description and diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia must work as well in East Timor as in the US or France.
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August 16, 2010
The Cultural Dimension in DSM-5: PTSD
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February 13, 2010
February 12, 2010
Many Veterans Not Getting Enough Treatment For PTSD
Although the Department of Veteran Affairs is rolling out treatments nationwide as fast as possible to adequately provide for newly diagnosed PTSD patients, there are still significant barriers to veterans getting a full course of PTSD treatment. The study is published in the latest issue of the Journal of Traumatic Stress...
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February 1, 2010
Objective Diagnosis Of PTSD Using Magnetoencephalography
Objective diagnosis is in someways the holy grail of medicine. It has been maddeningly elusivein psychiatry. Now comes a paper in which the authors suggestthat they may have found this treasure.The paper details a method of using magnetoencephalography to assesshuman brain function. They claim that, in a select population, itcan correctly identify patients with PTSD with 90% acc
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January 31, 2010
Evidence-based treatments for PTSD: Combating faulty claims that all treatments are the same
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. Today I find myself a part of a familiar scene. I'm sitting at my desk, looking at my computer with half of the screen showing a Firefox browser in which I am typing a PBB...
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January 26, 2010
Veterans With PTSD Could Receive More Benefits
The Associated Press/New York Times: "The military has agreed to expedite a review [of] the records of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans discharged with post-traumatic stress disorder to determine whether they were improperly denied benefits. The agreement stems from a judge's order in a class action lawsuit. ...
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December 9, 2009
Researchers Use New Techniques To Assess PTSD
Veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) frequently experience high rates of PTSD along with symptoms of depression and pain. However, little is known about why these symptoms occur together or the most effective treatments that can be used to alleviate them...
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August 17, 2009
Autobiographical and nonautobiographical memory functioning in PTSD
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating disorder characterized by altered memory functioning including the unintentional reliving of the traumatic experience. This feature of the disorder has been the focus of most PTSD studies, however rarely has there been an investigation on the aspect of disturbed intentional recall within the PTSD patient population. Jelinek et al. decided to
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