Health functioning impairments associated with posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, and depression.

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A twin registry study of familial and individual risk factors for trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Child and parent response to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

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Preventing traumatic stress : public health approaches.

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After the Omagh bomb : posttraumatic stress disorder in health service staff

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Predictors of posttraumatic stress reactions in Norwegian U.N. peacekeepers 7 years after service.

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Nature's impartiality, man's inhumanity : reflections on terrorism and world crisis in a context of historical disaster.

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Understanding the "worried well".

The burden of giving a diagnosis to patients who have no discernible clinical findings is often frustrating and anxiety provoking for the primary care clinician. This frustration is magnified when that patient returns on a frequent basis. These patients have been called the worried well, but there is no good CPT code for this diagnosis. Smith et al (1) have taken a novel approach to evaluating patients who are frequent users of primary care services.

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Protean nature of mass sociogenic illness : from possessed nuns to chemical and biological terrorism fears.

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BACKGROUND:

Episodes of mass sociogenic illness are becoming increasingly recognised as a significant health and social problem that is more common than is presently reported.

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To provide historical continuity with contemporary episodes of mass sociogenic illness in order to gain a broader transcultural and transhistorical understanding of this complex, protean phenomenon.

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Literature survey to identify historical trends.

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Peritraumatic dissociation and physiological response to trauma-relevant stimuli in Vietnam combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

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A recent study found that female rape victims with acute posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who received a high score on the Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire exhibited suppression of physiological responses during exposure to trauma-related stimuli. The goal of our present study was to test whether the same relationship holds true for male Vietnam combat veterans with chronic PTSD, using secondary analyses applied to data derived from a Veteran's Affairs Cooperative Study.

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