Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) PTSD occurs as a result of a traumatic event. It is diagnosed in 5%-10% of the population and is recognized twice as much in women than men. Symptoms must ...

Symptoms usually start within 3 months of the traumatic event, but they can begin later. For a person to receive a diagnosis of PTSD, they must meet criteria that are set out in the Diagnostic and ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to TSND-201 (methylone) for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The CAPS-5 total score ranks severity of 20 PTSD symptoms from 0 (not present) to 80 (most severe). Baseline values for the ...

Symptoms of PTSD generally arise within 3 months of a traumatic event but can also arise later. To be characterized as PTSD, the symptoms must last more than a month and interfere with your daily ...

Also, about 70 percent of those who received the MDMA-assisted therapy no longer met DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for PTSD, compared to 47 percent of participants receiving the placebo and therapy.

That is the $60,000 question, which I'll tackle in Part II of this series on the implications of PTSD becoming defined in a way that is appropriately more complex in the DSM-5.

Integrated interventions tailored by symptom type and population effectively improved PTSD-related outcomes in individuals ...

Based on the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5) total severity score, patients undergoing MDMA-assisted psychotherapy saw a significant improvement in their symptoms compared ...

1. Etiological event is required. PTSD is one of the rare disorders in the DSM-5 that requires an event to happen before the symptoms can appear.

Israeli researchers found that hyperbaric oxygen therapy could improve PTSD in combat veterans. Dr. Marc Siegel discusses mental health in the military and how this treatment could help.