2nd Edition
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis, Management and Treatment
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can be one of the most disabling of all the anxiety disorders and is frequently misdiagnosed and ineffectively treated. It is also an area in which there have been recent major advances. This book sets out to solve this problem, presenting doctors with practical guidance and at the same time a state-of-the-art summary of all the latest developments.
Posttraumatic stress disorder: Diagnosis, history, and longitudinal course
Arieh Y Shalev
Epidemiology of traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder
Tracie O Afifi, Gordon JG Asmundson, and Jitender Sareen
Diagnostic dilemmas in assessing posttraumatic stress disorder
Berthold PR Gersons and Miranda Olff
Neuroimaging and posttraumatic stress disorder
Sarah N Garfinkel and Israel Liberzon
Brain circuits in posttraumatic stress disorder
Eric Vermetten and Ruth Lanius
The genetics of posttraumatic stress disorder
Eduard Maron and Jakov Shlik
Setting apart the affected: A novel animal model for posttraumatic stress disorder and its translational perspective
Joseph Zohar, Michael Matar, and Hagit Cohen
Psychosocial treatments of posttraumatic stress disorder
Kerry J Ressler and Barbara O Rothbaum
Pharmacotherapy of posttraumatic stress disorder
Lakshmi N Ravindran and Murray B Stein
Early interventions following traumatic events
Jonathan I Bisson, Arieh Y Shalev, and Joseph Zohar
Traumatic stress disorders in children
Soraya Seedat
Ethnocultural issues
Alexander McFarlane and Devon Hinton
Posttraumatic stress disorder after disasters
Andrea R Maxwell and Sandro Galea
Symptom exaggeration in posttraumatic stress disorder
Alzbeta Juven-Wetzler, Rachel Sonnino, Danit Bar-Ziv, and Joseph Zohar
Future directions
Biography
Graeme Turner, David Nutt, Murray Stein, Joseph Zohar
'Useful, up to date, and comprehensive ... It deserves to be widely read by neurologists, psychiatrists and psychologists.' - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
'An attractive, readable single volume, which spans both useful clinical and pre-clinical information regarding PTSD. It represents good value for money and would prove invaluable to any clinician specializing in anxiety disorders.' - Journal of Psychopharmacology