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• Study Finds 60% of Privately Insured Youth With PTSD Receive Psychotherapy Psychiatric News (Yesterday) - Although the majority of privately insured youth diagnosed with a new episode of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) receive psychotherapy—considered the first-line treatment for pediatric PTSD—treatment gaps remain, according to a...
• Mantram Therapy Found to Benefit Veterans With PTSD Psychiatric News (Monday, 25 June) - A mindfulness-based therapy in which individuals learn to repeat personalized mantras to relax their thoughts appears to be more effective at reducing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms than a problem-solving...
• Antidepressants May Be Less Effective in Patients With Mild General Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder Psychiatric News (Tuesday, 24 April) - Patients with mild general anxiety disorder (GAD) or panic disorder (PD) may be less likely to benefit from antidepressants than patients with severe cases of these disorders, suggests a meta-analysis...
• Propranolol May Help Patients With PTSD Psychiatric News (Wednesday, 17 January) - While exposure therapy is recognized as one of the best strategies for treating patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), many continue to experience significant problems. A study published in AJP...
• Propranolol May Help PTSD Patients Receiving Exposure Therapy Psychiatric News (Tuesday, 16 January, 2018) - While exposure therapy is recognized as one of the best strategies for treating patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), many continue to experience significant problems. A study published in AJP...
• Pregnant Women With Dissociative Subtype of PTSD Have Higher Levels of Cortisol, Study Finds Psychiatric News (Monday, 11 December, 2017) - Pregnant women with a severe subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol than other pregnant women with a history of trauma,...
• Study Highlights Need for PTSD Interventions for Cancer Patients Psychiatric News (Wednesday, 22 November, 2017) - Research on adult cancer patients in Southeast Asia found a striking prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with about 1 in 5 (21.7%) experiencing symptoms of PTSD six months after...
• Brain Imaging Offers Clues About PTSD Patients Most Likely to Benefit From Prolonged Exposure Therapy Psychiatric News (Wednesday, 19 July, 2017) - Brain imaging may be able to predict patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who are most likely to benefit from the trauma-focused psychotherapy known as prolonged exposure, according to a...

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