News tagged with flashbacks
'Tetris' may help reduce flashbacks to traumatic events
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 07, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Playing ‘Tetris’ after traumatic events could reduce the flashbacks experienced in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), preliminary research by Oxford University psychologists suggests.
Search results for flashbacks
'Trauma pill' could help those with PTSD
Jan 30, 2006 |
3.8 / 5 (23) |
0
A "trauma pill" could blot out memories of harrowing events for combat veterans and survivors of accidents or terrorism, say Canadian researchers.
Researchers Unable to Agree on Predictors of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
Jun 30, 2008 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Studies exploring potential predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD) following major trauma have resulted in varied conclusions. While a number of risk factors such as injury severity, demographic factors and compensation-related ...
VR program may help soldiers avoid PTS
Jun 22, 2006 |
4.5 / 5 (4) |
0
A virtual reality program unveiled this week during a University of Haifa conference may help U.S. soldiers in Iraq avoid mental trauma.
Study re-examines Vietnam stress disorder
Aug 18, 2006 |
4 / 5 (6) |
0
A review of an 18-year-old U.S. study of post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by Vietnam veterans found sharply fewer were affected than originally reported.
Metabolic syndrome a risk for veterans with PTSD
Jan 08, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to have metabolic syndrome than veterans without PTSD, according to a study led by Pia Heppner, Ph.D., psychologist with the University of California, San ...
Witnessing violence affects kids' health
Apr 21, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
School-aged children who witness violence in urban communities show symptoms of post-traumatic stress. They also suffer physiological effects with a disruption to their normal cortisol production pattern during the day, which ...
Researchers discover ways of integrating treatment of traumatized Tibetan refugee monks
Mar 13, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
The Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights (BCRHHR) at Boston Medical Center recently treated many of the large number of Tibetan refugee monks who fled violent religious persecution. These individuals arrived ...
VA to ease way for vets to get stress disability
Oct 14, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Female soldiers and others in dangerous roles that once were behind front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan have long complained about how hard it is to prove their combat experience when applying for disability due ...
Researchers use 'Virtual Iraq' simulation to study post-traumatic stress disorder
May 14, 2007 |
not rated yet |
0
Weill Cornell Medical College researchers are using a virtual reality simulation called "Virtual Iraq" to better understand how symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develop. In their ongoing research trial, participating ...
Scanning invisible damage of PTSD, brain blasts
Nov 09, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries - signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
List of search results for flashbacks
