Resilience - why are some people okay after exposed to a traumatic event? why is ptsd important for bbh researchers?
-elevated inflammation -cvd -metabolic syndrome -rheumatoid arthritis - psoriasis -hypothyroidism But not type 2 diabetes ptsd is associated with...
Ptsd if duration of disturbance...
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Resilience - why are some people okay after exposed to a traumatic event? ✅why is
ptsd important for bbh researchers?
-elevated inflammation
-cvd
-metabolic syndrome
-rheumatoid arthritis
- psoriasis
-hypothyroidism
But not type 2 diabetes ✅ptsd is associated with...
Ptsd ✅if duration of disturbance is more than one month, they have
Acute stress disorder ✅if less than one month they have
Depersonalization ✅persistent or recurrent experiences of feeling detached from, and
as if one were an outside observer of, one's mental processes or body (e.g., feeling as
though one were in a dream; feeling a sense of unreality of self or body or of time
moving slowly).
Derealization ✅persistent or recurrent experiences of unreality of surroundings (e.g.,
the world around the individual is experienced as unreal, dreamlike, distant, or
distorted).
Delayed expression ✅delayed expression - if the full diagnostic criteria are not met
until at least 6 months after the event (although onset and expression of some of the
symptoms may be immediate).
8.7% ✅prevalence of ptsd in us
3.5% ✅12 month window
True ✅t or f: prevalence of ptsd is lower in other countries than it is in the us
True ✅t or f: rates are higher among veterans (15.2 - 30.9%), police (10 - 20%),
firefighters (14 - 22%), and emergency medical personnel (~ 20%).
True ✅t or f: highest rates (ranging from one-third to one-half of those exposed)
among survivors of rape, military combat and captivity, and ethnically or politically
motivated internment and genocide.
, The likelihood of developing ptsd ✅severity of trauma is correlated with...
Higher rates among u.s. Latinx, african-americans, and american indians. Lower rates
among asian americans ✅compared to u.s. Caucasians:
80% ✅individuals with ptsd are --- more likely to meet criteria for at least one other
mental disorder (e.g., major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, or substance abuse
disorders) than those without ptsd.
A huge issue when it comes to diagnosis and treatment ✅so comorbidity is...
Veterans who served in afghanistan and iraq, ✅for ---- 48% of those with ptsd also met
criteria for a mild traumatic brain injury.
◦keep in mind that trauma exposure increases risk of schizophrenia and that genetic
markers overlap between the two disorders (o'conghaile& delisi, 2015). ✅derealization
depersonalization◦sound very much like hallucinations/paranoia. How do we
differentiate from schizophrenia?
Women than men ✅rates are higher in....
50-90% ✅---- of people are exposed to events that could produce pts
Commit suicide, and are more likely to drop out of school and have instable marriages
✅those with ptsd are 6 times more likely to
Most studies have focused on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (hpa) axis and
sympathetic-adrenal-medullary (sam) system. ✅why does ptsd result in immune
changes (pace & heim, 2011)?
"stress response system" ✅ptsd characterized as a disorder of the
Cerebrospinal fluid (csf) levels of corticotropin releasing hormone (crh); high stress,
hypothalamus ✅increased.... In comparison to those without ptsd. This is consistent
with having..... , released by....in response to stress
Decreased , ptsd patients having flatter slope lines ✅-----cortisol (using urine and
saliva samples) in comparison to those without ptsd. This is due to...
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