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Treatments
January 10, 2024
Cannabis and Cannabinoids Don’t Work for Pain or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Aaron S. Wolfgang, MD and Charles W. Hoge, MD reviewed data on cannabis in JAMA Psychiatry and found that there were big placebo effects and no evidence for effectiveness of cannabis in military personal. -- This negative ...
Treatments
February 23, 2022
MDMA Superior to Placebo in Treatment of Severe PTSD
An article by researcher Jennifer M. Mitchell and colleagues published in the journal Nature in 2021 reported that MDMA was more effective than placebo at treating severe post-traumatic stress disorder in an 18-week phase ...
Treatments
April 28, 2020
Better One-Year Clinical Outcomes After Four Weeks of Theta Burst Stimulation for PTSD Than After Two Weeks
Theta burst stimulation. -- In a 2019 article in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, Nicholas J. Petrosino and colleagues described findings from one year of follow-up with veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress di...
Treatments
September 11, 2018
Repeated Ketamine Reduces PTSD and Depression in the Short Term
In a 2018 open study by C. Sophia Albott and colleagues in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a simultaneous diagnosis of major depression were treated with six infu...
Biology
January 22, 2018
Type of Trauma Affects Gene Transcription Effects in PTSD
In a 2017 article in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, researcher Michael S. Breen and colleagues analyzed five separate studies of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and found that sex and type of trauma affected th...
Biology
October 16, 2017
Different Types of Trauma Affect Brain Volume Differently
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with decreased volume of gray matter in the cortex. Research by Linghui Meng and colleagues has revealed that the specific types of trauma that precede PTSD affect ...
Biology
July 8, 2016
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Improves Depression, PTSD by Improving Brain Connectivity
A recent study clarified how cognitive behavioral therapy improves symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The participants were 62 adult women. One group had depression, one had PTSD, and the thi...
Treatments
July 8, 2013
One Doctor’s Protocol for the Treatment of Severe PTSD
Note: The following article discusses “off-label” treatments for the treatment of PTSD or traumatic brain injury, i.e. those which are not FDA-approved for these purposes. In some of these instances, there is no controlled...
Treatments
July 5, 2013
Prazosin Treats PTSD Nightmares
Patients with PTSD often struggle with nightmares, but a treatment normally used for high blood pressure may also be able to prevent these sometimes horrific dreams. In a study that marks the third replication of this find...
Risk Factors
July 2, 2013
In Veterans, PTSD Is Associated With Autoimmune Illnesses
At a recent scientific meeting, Thomas Neylan and colleagues reported that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be connected to autoimmune illnesses. In this study, 673,277 veterans of the US military who had served i...