PTSD Archives

Drivers of preference for evidence-based PTSD treatment: A qualitative assessment (Military Medicine)

This project analyzes the reasons that drive preferences for one of five evidence-based PTSD treatments (cognitive processing therapy, prolonged exposure, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, stress inoculation training, antidepressant medication) among adults who screened positive for PTSD.

Psychological treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder in adults: a network meta-analysis (Psychological Medicine)

EMDR and TF-CBT appear to be most effective at reducing symptoms and improving remission rates in adults with PTSD.

The impact of brief intensive trauma-focused treatment for PTSD on symptoms of borderline personality disorder (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

Results suggest that an intensive trauma-focused treatment is feasible and safe for PTSD patients with borderline personality disorder.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for mental health problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)

Review and meta-analysis of randomised trials examining the effects of EMDR on PTSD and other mental health problems.

Interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms induced by medical events: A systematic review (Journal of Psychosomatic Research)

This literature review looked at treatment of PTSD symptoms after medical events such as myocardial infarction and cancer diagnosis.

Neurobiology of emotional trauma (Psychiatriki)

Neuroimaging studies of successful EMDR treatment have consistently shown that patients exhibited increased frontal lobe activation.

The neuroscience of curing PTSD with EMDR therapy with Marco Pagani (Coffee with Scientists)

Dr. Marco Pagani talks about the first scientific study ever to look at the brain during psychotherapeutic treatment and reveals how EMDR therapy works to cure PTSD.

Healing trauma & PTSD with EMDR (Better Together)

EMDR therapy helps heal people with PTSD with incredible success.

Individual prediction of psychotherapy outcome in posttraumatic stress disorder using neuroimaging data (Translational Psychiatry)

This study investigated how functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI/rs-fMRI) data could create personalized treatment for PTSD by studying a group of male veterans..