PTSD Med Psych

PTSD diagnosis
- Experience of a trauma with actual or threatened death/injury
- Response involves fear, horror, or helplessness
Primary symptoms
- Reexperiencing
- Avoidance
- Arousal
Acute Stress Disorder

Symptoms occur within 4 weeks, last no more than 30 days
Anatomy of PTSD
- Limbic system
- Pre-frontal cortex
- HPA axis
Classical conditioning

Stimulus leads to response
Associative long-term potentiation
- Assoc. of stimuli to a life threat with DANGER
- reminders of experience
Operant conditioning

Encountering cues of trauma leads to distress (negatively reinforces avoidance)

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PTSD Med Psych

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PTSD Med Psych

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2011-04-27T05:16:45Z

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