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Posttraumatic stress disorder [ note 1 ] ( PTSD ) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This event may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else, or to one's own or someone else's physical, sexual, or psychological integrity, [ 1 ] overwhelming the individual's ability to cope . As an effect of psychological trauma , PTSD is less frequent and more enduring than the more commonly seen acute stress response . Diagnostic symptoms for PTSD include re-experiencing the original trauma(s) through flashbacks or nightmares , avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and increased arousal —such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger , and hypervigilance . Formal diagnostic criteria (both DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 ) require that the symptoms last more than one month and cause significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. [ 1 ]
Posttraumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Le trouble de stress post-traumatique (aussi connu sous les termes de syndrome de stress post-traumatique , SSPT, ou état de stress post-traumatique , ESPT) désigne un type de trouble anxieux sévère qui se manifeste à la suite d'une expérience vécue comme traumatisante. Le trouble de stress post-traumatique est une réaction psychologique consécutive à une situation durant laquelle l'intégrité physique et/ou psychologique du patient et/ou de son entourage a été menacée et/ou effectivement atteinte (notamment accident grave, mort violente, viol , agression, maladie grave, guerre , attentat ).
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[2010] Obama Loves This Freaky PTSD Treatment; the Pentagon, Not So Much | Danger Room | Wired.com
Military-backed efforts to find an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress are making sluggish progress. The Pentagon is funding all kinds of ideas — from yoga to telepsychology . Each has its limitations. But one doctor is convinced he’s found a viable way to treat the estimated 20 percent of troops now coming home with PTSD — if only the Pentagon would give it a shot.
People suffering from the agony of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may one day find relief with Ecstasy. A small clinical trial found that 80 percent of participants treated with a combination of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and psychotherapy no longer showed signs of PTSD, with no serious side effects. Three people who also said the disorder prevented them from going to work were able to return to their jobs after the treatment. The study is the first completed clinical trial evaluating MDMA as a therapeutic adjunct since it was criminalized in 1985 owing to recreational use of the drug, known by its street name Ecstasy. Twenty patients who had suffered with chronic PTSD for an average of more than 19 years and who had not obtained relief from both psychotherapy and psychopharmacology were randomly assigned to two eight-hour psychotherapy sessions, with 12 subjects receiving the drug and eight receiving a placebo.
[2010] Ecstasy Helps Treat PTSD Patients, Trial Finds - CBS News
On notera tout de même que l'échantillon est très petit. by Jul 19
Des cachets d'ecstasy (Wikimedia Commons). L'ecstasy, ou sa molécule MDMA, aurait d'autres vertus que celle de vous faire danser toute la nuit avec de grands yeux écarquillés et des dents qui grincent. Un groupe de chercheurs américains vient de publier dans le « Journal of Psychopharmacology » le résultat d'une étude sur ses usages possibles dans le champ médical.
L'ecstasy pourrait soigner les victimes de traumatismes | Rue89
A pair of psychiatric experts think they’ve got the answer to the soaring number of troops coming back from war with PTSD: have them undergo intensive psychotherapy — while they’re rolling on ecstasy. Dr. Michael Mithoefer and Anne Mithoefer, a psychiatric nurse, are the South Carolina pair who’ve been spearheading research into ecstasy , known clinically as MDMA, since 2000. After one successful study on 21 PTSD patients between 2004 and 2008, they’ve now received the final okay from FDA and DEA officials to start a study entirely devoted to former military service members. “My sense is that, especially after we published the results of the first study, these institutions are more open to the idea,” Dr. Michael Mithoefer tells Danger Room.
Vets Get Ecstasy to Treat Their PTSD | Danger Room | Wired.com