Posttraumatic stress disorders and depression among male inpatient adults involved in the Lebanese war

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-269
Author(s):  
Hiba Yaacoub ◽  
Chadia Haddad ◽  
Tania Dib ◽  
Marouan Zoghbi ◽  
Shafika Assaad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorders ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorders

Dysregulation of the Right Brain: A Fundamental Mechanism of Traumatic Attachment and the Psychopathogenesis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan N Schore
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Developmental Trajectory ◽  
Stress Disorders ◽  
Developmental Stress ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorders ◽  
Autonomic Nervous ◽  
Right Brain ◽  
The Right

Objective: This review integrates recent advances in attachment theory, affective neuroscience, developmental stress research, and infant psychiatry in order to delineate the developmental precursors of posttraumatic stress disorder. Method: Existing attachment, stress physiology, trauma, and neuroscience literatures were collected using Index Medicus/Medline and Psychological Abstracts. This converging interdisciplinary data was used as a theoretical base for modelling the effects of early relational trauma on the developing central and autonomic nervous system activities that drive attachment functions. Results: Current trends that integrate neuropsychiatry, infant psychiatry, and clinical psychiatry are generating more powerful models of the early genesis of a predisposition to psychiatric disorders, including PTSD. Data are presented which suggest that traumatic attachments, expressed in episodes of hyperarousal and dissociation, are imprinted into the developing limbic and autonomic nervous systems of the early maturing right brain. These enduring structural changes lead to the inefficient stress coping mechanisms that lie at the core of infant, child, and adult posttraumatic stress disorders. Conclusions: Disorganised-disoriented insecure attachment, a pattern common in infants abused in the first 2 years of life, is psychologically manifest as an inability to generate a coherent strategy for coping with relational stress. Early abuse negatively impacts the developmental trajectory of the right brain, dominant for attachment, affect regulation, and stress modulation, thereby setting a template for the coping deficits of both mind and body that characterise PTSD symptomatology. These data suggest that early intervention programs can significantly alter the intergenerational transmission of posttraumatic stress disorders.

Evidence for two different ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorders in a community sample of adolescents and young adults

2015 ◽  
Vol 266 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Perkonigg ◽  
Michael Höfler ◽  
Marylène Cloitre ◽  
Hans-Ulrich Wittchen ◽  
Sebastian Trautmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Stress Disorders ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorders
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