Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Trauma Symptoms Determined By Children's Sense Of Threat From Parental Fighting

Trauma Symptoms Determined By Children's Sense Of Threat From Parental Fighting

Monday, March 29, 2010

Friday, March 19, 2010

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

How the Neurocircuitry and Genetics of Fear Inhibition May Inform Our Understanding of PTSD.

CiteULike: How the Neurocircuitry and Genetics of Fear Inhibition May Inform Our Understanding of PTSD.: "Jovanovic, T. and Ressler, K. J. (2010). How the neurocircuitry and genetics of fear inhibition may inform our understanding of ptsd. The American journal of psychiatry."

Effects of resveratrol on NO secretion stimulated by insulin and its dependence on SIRT1 in high glucose cultured endothelial cells

The author concludes that resveratrol may have benefits against atherosclerosis in diabetic patients.

CiteULike: Effects of resveratrol on NO secretion stimulated by insulin and its dependence on SIRT1 in high glucose cultured endothelial cells: "Yang, J., Wang, N., Li, J., Zhang, J., and Feng, P. (2010). Effects of resveratrol on no secretion stimulated by insulin and its dependence on sirt1 in high glucose cultured endothelial cells. Endocrine."

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The effect of electroacupuncture on T cell responses in rats with experimental autoimmune encephalitis

Electroacupuncture (EA) stimulation could relieve the severity of EAE by restoring balance to the Th1/Th2/Th17/Treg Th cell subset responses by stimulating the hypothalamus to increase ACTH secretion

CiteULike: The effect of electroacupuncture on T cell responses in rats with experimental autoimmune encephalitis: "Liu, Y.-m., Liu, X.-j., Bai, S.-S., Mu, L.-l., Kong, Q.-f., Sun, B., Wang, D.-d., Wang, J.-h., Shu, S., Wang, G.-y., and Li, H.-l. (2010). The effect of electroacupuncture on t cell responses in rats with experimental autoimmune encephalitis. Journal of Neurobiology, 220(1):25-33."

Helping Heroes and Screening the Disaster Tourists

Helping Heroes and Screening the Disaster Tourists

TBI and PTSD: Trauma and Resilience: Mind, Body, and Spirit

Dr. Maria Mouratidis from Bethesda Naval Medical Center speaks about the reality of experiencing traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. A large amount of medical research has been done on these conditions in the last several years, however, there is more research and support that is needed to understand "the experience" from the patient's perspective of these conditions during and after the injury. This is a very great presentation given by a mental health provider who cares for the injured from day 1. She offers her insight of what is done and what needs to be done for those that are injured. Importantly, brain injury and PTSD does not just occur in those who have served protecting out country but also occurs in accidents, domestic violence, sports injuries, etc.

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Alterations in Gene Expression May Have Role In PTSD

CiteULike: DNA methylation in vulnerability to post-traumatic stress in rats: evidence for the role of the post-synaptic density protein Dlgap2.: "Chertkow-Deutsher, Y., Cohen, H., Klein, E., and Ben-Shachar, D. (2009). Dna methylation in vulnerability to post-traumatic stress in rats: evidence for the role of the post-synaptic density protein dlgap2. The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology / official scientific journal of the Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum (CINP), pages 1-13."

Friday, March 5, 2010

Getting Rid Of Repeating Nightmares: A Simple, Potent, New Recipe

One of the most dramatic, butt-kicking examples of an effective new treatment tool for posttraumatic stress is a simple protocol called Nightmare Reprocessing, devised by two V.A. psychologists, Edgardo Padin-Rivera and Beverly Donovan at the Louis Stokes Cleveland V.A. Medical Center.
Getting Rid Of Repeating Nightmares: A Simple, Potent, New Recipe