Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis, Management and Treatment

by Nutt; David

• ISBN13: 9780415395717
• ISBN10: 0415395712
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-30
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

'...useful, up to date, and comprehensive... It deserves to be widely read by neurologists, psychiatrists and psychologists; Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (of the first edition)

Author Biography

David J Nutt, MB BChir MA, MD, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci is Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Molecular Imaging, Imperial College London, UK. Currently president of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology and a past president of the British Association of Psychopharmacology, his previous publications include Treating Depression Effectively, second edition (Informa Healthcare 2008), Calming the Brain (Informa Healthcare 2003), Generalized Anxiety Disorders (Informa Healthcare 2002), Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents (Informa Healthcare 2001), Essentials in Clinical Psychiatric Pharmacology (Informa Healthcare 2001), Atlas of Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy (Informa Healthcare 2000), and Panic Disorder (Informa Healthcare 1998). Murray B Stein, MD, FRCPC, MPH is Professor of Psychiatry and Family Preventive Medicine at the University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA, and Director of the Injury and Traumatic Stress (INTRuST) Clinical Consortium. He is co-author of Triumph Over Shyness: Conquering Shyness and Social Anxiety (Anxiety Disorders Association of America, 2009) and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Anxiety (Oxford University Press, 2009). Joseph Zohar, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, and Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Israel. The President-Elect of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), he is also co-author of Clinical Decisions in Psychiatry (Informa Healthcare, 2002) and co-editor of Textbook on Anxiety Disorder (Wiley, 2003) and Mood Disorders: Clinical Management and Research issues (Wiley, 2005)

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. v
Foreword	p. vii
Posttraumatic stress disorder: Diagnosis, history, and longitudinal course	p. 1
Epidemiology of traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder	p. 12
Diagnostic dilemmas in assessing posttraumatic stress disorder	p. 25
Neuroimaging and posttraumatic stress disorder	p. 36
Brain circuits in posttraumatic stress disorder	p. 51
The genetics of posttraumatic stress disorder	p. 70
Setting apart the affected: A novel animal model for posttraumatic stress disorder and its translational perspective	p. 88
Psychosocial treatments of posttraumatic stress disorder	p. 99
Pharmacotherapy of posttraumatic stress disorder	p. 116
Early interventions following traumatic events	p. 127
Traumatic stress disorders in children	p. 147
Ethnocultural issues	p. 163
Posttraumatic stress disorder after disasters	p. 176
Symptom exaggeration in posttraumatic stress disorder	p. 187
Future directions	p. 195
Index	p. 201
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