Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term for the psychological consequences of exposure to or confrontation with stressful experiences, which involve actual or threatened death, serious physical injury or a threat to physical integrity and which the person found highly traumatic. It is occasionally called post-traumatic stress reaction, to emphasize that it is a fairly normal result of a traumatic experience, rather than a manifestation of a pre-existing psychological weakness on the part of the patient.

External links

• National Center for PTSD
• PTSD, organised violence and treatment
• Victims Website
• New Scientist, 25 August 2005, "Trauma of war hits troops years later"
• Help For PTSD
• [http://www.brainexplorer.org/brain_disorders/Focus_PTSD.shtml www.brainexplorer.org:
• Researchers have discovered a simple blood test that can detect Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in advance- An article

Neurobiological background infos and studies about medication]

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• EMDR Institute
• Criticism of EMDR
• TIR website
• PTSD & Hypoglycemia

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