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Dr. Marylene Cloitre is the Associate Director of Research of the National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division and a research Professor of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University,
Dr. Joan Cook is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. She has specific expertise in the areas of traumatic stress and geriatric mental health. Dr. Cook
Cortisol, a stress hormone, is a key player in the subtle hormonal changes that have come to be associated with PTSD, and Dr. Rachel Yehuda, a neuroscientist and the director of the traumatic stress studies
“What Dreams May Come: Treating the Nightmares of PTSD” was a blog post I published in November 2013. It remains a very popular post, which continues to receive many views and comments. Since publishing that post,
I am delighted to offer Mind the Brain readers a guest blog written by my colleague, Eve Carlson, Ph.D. Eve Carlson is a clinical psychologist and researcher with the National Center for PTSD and the
June is PTSD awareness month. In light of this, I am reposting a blog I wrote about “The Latest and Greatest in Treatment for PTSD.” If you are interested in knowing more about PTSD please
NOTE: Additional documentation and supplementary links and commentary are available at What We Need to Do to Redeem Psychotherapy Research. Fueling Change in Psychotherapy Research with Greater Scrutiny and Public Accountability John Ioannidis’s declarations that
I am frequently asked to talk about PTSD to professional audiences and, without exception, always get a post talk question asking about my experience with some experimental intervention that someone read about somewhere in a
While modern antipsychotics are doing an OK job improving the positive symptoms of schizophrenia – such as auditory hallucinations or fixed delusional ideas – there is a lot left to be desired in term of how these
Earlier this month, I posted a blog titled, Understanding Lack of Access to Mental Healthcare in the US: 3 Lessons from the Gus Deeds Story. In that post, I highlighted how current mental health commitment
Photo by colemama via FlickrS As the anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting re-opens psychological wounds for young and old alike, we’re re-posting Shaili Jain’s post-Sandy Hook interview with Dr. Victor Carrion, a Professor
A standard part of any psychiatric evaluation involves inquiring about a patient’s sleep. Hidden in the answers that follow the basic question of, “How are you sleeping?” are the clues that are needed to diagnose
November 8, 2013. Advice to junior researchers: High or low road to success? from James Coyne This is a presentation from the International Psycho-Oncology Society Conference in Rotterdam, November 8, 2013 invited by the
I’ve decided to liberate as much of my work as I can, exploiting the advantages that having an institutional repository has. So why not start with paper #1. Back in 1985 I met Daniel Oliva,