PTSD and Panic, Anxiety, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

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PTSD and Panic, Anxiety, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia: Post-traumatic stress disorder

"Post-traumatic stress disorder is a psychiatric illness that can occur following a traumatic event in which there was threat of injury or death to you or someone else. … (PTSD) may occur soon after a major trauma, or can be delayed for more than six months after the event. When it occurs soon after the trauma it usually resolves after three months, but some people experience a longer-term form of the condition, which can last for many years. … People with PTSD re-experience the event again and again in at least one of several ways. They may have recurrent distressing dreams and recollections of the event, a sense of reliving the experience (referred to as flashbacks), and/or become very distressed around the time of events that symbolize the event (such as anniversaries)."

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Health Status: The Veterans Health Study. (J Ambul Care Manage. 2006)

"The association of PTSD with health status was substantial, suggesting that the burden of PTSD is at least comparable to, and may be worse than, that of depression. Mental health treatment alleviated some of this burden. The potential impact of PTSD on health status should be more widely recognized."

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PTSD and Panic, Anxiety, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

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Anxiety disorders common, often untreated

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Altered cingulate white matter connectivity in panic disorder patients. (J Psychiatr Res. 2007)

Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care: Prevalence, Impairment, Comorbidity, and Detection (Annals 2007) "Conclusions: Anxiety disorders are prevalent, disabling, and often untreated in primary care. A 2-item screening test may enhance detection."

Cortical thinning in obsessive compulsive disorder. (Hum Brain Mapp. 2007)

Functional and biochemical alterations of the medial frontal cortex in obsessive-compulsive disorder. (Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007)

Functional neuroimaging of anxiety: a meta-analysis of emotional processing in PTSD, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobia. (Am J Psychiatry. 2007)

Morphologic alterations in the corpus callosum in abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder: a preliminary study. (J Nerv Ment Dis. 2007) “These results suggest that relatively smaller areas of the posterior midbody of the corpus callosum are associated with childhood abuse related PTSD in adults; these findings are consistent with findings in children with abuse-related PTSD.”

Partial Seizures due to Sclerosis of the Right Amygdala Presenting as Panic Disorder. On the Importance of Psychopathological Assessment in Differential Diagnosis. (Psychopathology. 2007) "The differential diagnosis between panic disorder and focal epilepsy may sometimes pose a serious challenge."

Personality dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Relation to clinical variables. (Psychiatry Res. 2007)

Smaller right hippocampus in war veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. (Psychiatry Res. 2007)

Symptom Structure in Japanese Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. (Am J Psychiatry. 2007) "Conclusions The findings in this study support transcultural stability in the symptom structure of OCD, which is consistent with the hypothesis that OCD is mediated by universal psychobiological mechanisms."

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