Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Cognitive Decline in Women: What’s the Link?
Researchers sought to assess the association between PTSD and cognitive decline in middle-aged women over time.
Researchers sought to assess the association between PTSD and cognitive decline in middle-aged women over time.
In a randomized clinical trial, researchers compared cognitive behavioral therapy or cognitive processing therapy against usual treatments for posttraumatic headache comorbid with PTSD.
In this study, medical records were sourced from the Veteran’s Affairs Health Care System to evaluate whether use of a CPAP may complement PTSD symptom improvement among patients receiving cognitive processing therapy.
The researchers used a depression-specific version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm to measure participants’ tendencies to remember certain stimuli they hadn’t heard before.
Patients with COVID-19 have experienced increased sleep disturbances, and individuals who have been more affected by the pandemic had increased nightmares, prior studies have shown. This is the first study of the oneiric activity of people with COVID-19 and the first comparing their oneiric activity with those of individuals who have not had COVID-19.
Researchers studied trauma-focused written exposure therapy (WET) treatment and time-intensive trauma-focused cognitive processing therapy (CPT) treatment for active-duty service members diagnosed with PTSD.
Researchers sought to compare the benefits of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia for sleep, mental health symptoms, and quality of life in women veterans with and without probable PTSD with insomnia.
The researchers strove to develop and validate a computerized adaptive diagnostic (CAD) screener and computerized adaptive test (CAT) for PTSD symptom severity.
There may be an association between a history of psychiatric disorders in patients and age of onset of Alzheimer disease.
To learn more about the potential role of cannabinoids in the management of sleep disorders, we interviewed Aleksandra M. Kwasnik, MD, who recently coauthored a review on the topic.