Marcia Angell, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  About 80 percent of prescriptions that year were for unapproved uses—conditions like bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, hot flashes, migraines, and tension headaches.6 In fact, Neurontin has become a sort of all-purpose restorative for chronic discomfort of almost any type—yet there is almost no good published evidence that it works for most of these conditions. In May 2004, eight years after the case began, Pfizer pleaded guilty to illegal marketing and agreed to pay $430 million to resolve the criminal and civil charges against it. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts |  One study points out that MCS, fibromyalgia, CFS, and post-traumatic stress disorder are overlapping diseases, sharing common symptoms. Very often, each disorder seems to be induced by a relatively short-term stress, which is followed by a chronic pathology, suggesting that the stress may act by inducing a self-perpetuating vicious cycle.
Pall et al. (2001b) believe that the vicious cycle mechanism is the explanation for the etiology of CFS and MCS, based on the elevated levels of nitric oxide and its potent oxidant product, peroxynitrite, found in both conditions.
Beckman et al. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  Animal studies of prolonged alarm reactions associate this stage with weight loss, gastric ulcers, and immunosuppression.
Resistance Phase (Chronic Stress)
Due to the challenges of modern life, for many people the perceived stressors are not short term but chronic. In this second phase of the GAS, the organism is still reacting to a perceived stress or stresses, but some of the outwardly observable signs of stress are different. Levels of Cortisol and epinephrine are still elevated. |
Katharine Greider
See book keywords and concepts |  Originally approved to treat depression, the drug now has approval for obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. After Paxil became the first drug approved to treat a rare and extreme form of shyness, called social anxiety disorder (SAD), in 1999, GSK struck out to raise awareness about SAD, and stories suddenly proliferated in popular media. "Some people find comfort just by learning social anxiety is a medical condition," GlaxoSmithKline's web site, www.Paxil.com, informs browsers. |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  What's more, it helps the mind and body overcome psychological stressors, such as sleep deprivation, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Perhaps most significantly, it could increase longevity by reducing the damage associated with age and illness. (For an overview of some current theories on aging and their respective links to Rhodiola rosea, see page 64.)
Like other adaptogens, Rhodiola rosea has very few side effects. It is extremely safe and nontoxic. |
Katharine Greider
See book keywords and concepts | | Antidepressant sales spiked from $2 billion in 1993 to more than $12 billion by 2001, prescribed increasingly by non-psychiatrists and for a wider array of conditions, including so-called minor depression (in which efficacy is less well-established than in major depression) and, according to a review recently published in Health Affairs, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia, panic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, premenstrual syndrome, weight loss, and smoking cessation. Before Prozac dropped out, three antidepressants were among the top ten best-selling drugs in America. |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | For example, in MRI studies, severely abused children, sexually abused women, and soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder showed a loss of nerve cells in the hippocampus. This is believed to result from the high levels of excitatory neurotransmitters and Cortisol that get released during extreme stress.3' 4>5
Although a limited period of moderate stress can stimulate the mind for brainstorming and problem solving, prolonged or severe stress depletes cellular energy reserves. Over time, we begin to feel as though we're stuck in mental molasses, going nowhere fast. | | The Herbal Mood Booster
Only a small number of clinical trials have evaluated Rhodiola rosea as a treatment for depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. But we have seen so many patients like Maria respond remarkably well to the herb that we consider it an important addition to the pharmacopoeia for mood and anxiety disorders.
Until we began working with Rhodiola rosea, we were troubled by the fact that many patients taking prescription antidepressants never seemed to get as well as we believed they could. | | Although I didn't think I needed another spiritual practice in addition to Zen and aikido, I was so impressed with what I saw and heard that day that I began recommending the SKY breathing course to patients struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Much to my delight, the course turned out to be so effective that some of my patients were able to reduce their reliance on medications. Many others reported unexpected health benefits—increases in their physical and mental energy, as well as improvements in medical conditions and relief from chronic pain. | | It had been the key to his recovery from severe post-traumatic stress disorder, which he'd developed after serving with the Soviet army during the war in Afghanistan.
Zakir gave me a stack of articles and studies, as well as a book, on the benefits of Rhodiola rosea, of which he was coauthor. I discovered that the herb—which grows at high altitudes in Siberia, the Republic of Georgia, and Scandinavia—calms the stress response system while increasing cellular energy. It also improves brain function and strengthens the immune system.
Right away I realized that Rhodiola rosea might help Pat. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts | | Approximately twice as many females have panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, agoraphobia (fear of open places or public situations), and other specific phobias. About an equal number of men and women are diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) (Bourdon et al. 1988; Robins et al. 1991; Davidson 2000).
Panic Disorder
This disorder is characterized by repeated episodes of intense fear that appear suddenly, often without warning and with varying frequency. | | For example, one study found that physical or sexual maltreatment and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (hyperarousal/ hypervigilance) symptoms overlapped with those of ADHD (Ford et al. 2000). ADHD is also frequently confused with bipolar disorder but differs substantially in that bipolar children suffer from hypersexuality and parental conflicts that do not occur in ADHD (Geller et al. 2000).
Behavioral Signs
Despite the many difficulties in obtaining an accurate diagnosis, there are increasingly clear behavioral criteria for ADHD. |
Margarita Artschwager Kay
See book keywords and concepts |  Various emotional "states" in the nosology of "Mexican diseases" treated by plants include tiricia (separation sorrow), susto (comparable to biomedicine's post-traumatic stress disorder), and nervios (acute nervousness) or ataque de nervios (lay concept of "nervous breakdown"). These conditions are often considered to be culture-bound to Hispanics, but they have counterparts in the lay nosology in other cultures and have been known by other peoples of the American and Mexican West.
Every ethnic group reported plants to treat venereal disease, both gonorrhea and syphilis. |
Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Peniston is now training others to treat alcoholics, drug abusers, and people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using neurofeedback. The results are startling.
Even the legal system is beginning to take an interest and see the benefits of neurofeedback. Judge John Larsen, state district judge in Missoula, Montana, used a federal grant to purchase a neurofeedback machine for their juvenile justice court.
Not all of the violent behavior that we treat has come to us after a run-in with the law. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In many people with depression, anxiety, addictions, TS, and post-traumatic stress disorder this balance is disturbed. There may be separate genes that affect serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and GABA production, and their expression may also be affected by genetic defects in the dopaminergic receptors, as seen with the D2A1 allele. The neurotransmitter deficiencies are a critical aspect of the addictive brain problem, but there is more.
Holistic Addictive-Brain Model
Tn order to bring the neurochemistry back into harmony we need J. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Obviously, persons with post-traumatic stress disorder have memories that haunt them—but the biological presence of the feedforward mechanism "locks in" those painful memories. Then the stress-producing memories perpetuate the feedforward mechanism. Thus another degenerative spiral is created.
My brain longevity programs can intervene in this spiral, by addressing not only the psychological elements of the spiral, but also the biological elements.
I'll give you one example of how the stress-induced feedforward mechanism can be avoided. The great Cortisol researcher Dr. |
Stanton Peele
See book keywords and concepts |  It is important to reflect on the Vietnam trauma (or post-traumatic stress disorder, in DSM-III-R) defense. It maintains that stressful events that take place in adulthood can cause crimes, both violent (such as murder) and premeditated (such as running drugs), committed literally decades after the experience. Indeed, it is hard not to imagine someone in a violent subculture, one in which killing and drug dealing are more likely to occur, who cannot cite some deep trauma—from parental abuse to abandonment to witnessing brutal crimes—in his or her defense. | | Rapism was excluded from DSM-III-R altogether. post-traumatic stress disorder (an important example of which is post-Vietnam stress) is, on the other hand, a full-fledged syndrome in DSM-III-R, while postpartum depression was not included in DSM-III-R as a diagnostic category. Postpartum depression has nonetheless been used as a defense in an increasing number of cases where women kill their children.
What Is It Called When Middle-Class Women Kill Their Children?
There are some crimes so horrible that their commission is their own defense. |
Bill Gottlieb
See book keywords and concepts |  Care for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) includes a number of important elements that call for professional counseling, says Reneau Z. Peurifoy, a marriage and family therapist and anxiety specialist in the Sacramento area.
First, you need to understand what the condition is and that it's normal to have it if you've experienced a trauma. A counselor experienced in PTSD can help.
If you're severely traumatized, you may need to sit down with someone you trust, such as a friend, a family member, or a counselor, and have that person help you organize your life for a little while. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  As a physician's assistant, Amiotte now specializes in helping veterans overcome post-traumatic stress disorder (what used to be called combat fatigue). Interestingly, Amiotte has been able to achieve success where standard Veterans Administration programs have failed. Puzzled Western doctors have questioned Amiotte on his success. Amiotte points out that healing is more than physical. Healing takes place on the physical, mental, and spiritual levels, and a medical practitioner needs to consider all three aspects for optimum success. This is something Western medicine fails to do. |
Bill Gottlieb
See book keywords and concepts | | The marks of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may include:
• Hypervigilance, a state in which you're anxiously alert all the time, particularly around anything that reminds you of the original event
• Depression, which makes you feel numb and uninterested in life
• Flashbacks—usually not the full-scale, 3-D flashbacks you see in the movies, but frequent thoughts, feelings, or memories of the traumatic event. |
Andrew L. Stoll
See book keywords and concepts |  However, not everyone raised in a violent, abusive, neglectful home will become ill, just as not every Vietnam combat veteran came home with post-traumatic stress disorder.
In light of this, medications have emerged specifically to take the edge off explosive anger and rage. These medications include the anticonvulsant drugs gabapentin (Neurontin) and divalproex sodium (Depakote), the beta-blockers propranolol (Inderal) and others, the conventional and the newer "atypical" antipsychotic agents, and many others. |
Stanton Peele
See book keywords and concepts | | War trauma is part of a larger category called post-traumatic stress disorder, found in women as well as men who have lost babies or spouses or have been crime or accident victims.
Peculiar to women, of course, is premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Hazelden's July, 1983, Professional Update magazine for counselors called PMS "The Disease of the 80's." A wide variety of drug (along with hormone and vitamin) therapies, as well as psychological counseling, are now actively marketed for relieving PMS symptoms. Later in the 1980s, PMS has been joined in popularity by postpartum depression (PPD). |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts |  TFT has been shown to be remarkably effective for providing quick, effective, and lasting relief of most psychological problems, including anxiety and depression, addiction, alcoholism, irrational fears and phobias, limited and self-sabotaging beliefs, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, sexual dysfunctions, stress, and trauma related to rape and child abuse. | | EMDR has experienced rapid growth in the mind/body and psychotherapeutic fields due to its impressive results in dealing with psychological conditions such as anxiety, depression, phobias, and post-traumatic stress disorder. It is well-known by mind/body practitioners that the initial painful emotions and beliefs caused by trauma and which accompany such conditions often go unresolved, making it difficult to fully recover.
During an EMDR session, the patient places the attention on the thoughts, memories, and physical sensations associated with their behavioral problems. | | Today, it is employed by over 20,000 psychotherapists as a treatment for a variety of mental and behavioral disorders, including addiction, anxiety, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is as a treatment for PTSD that EMDR is best known, due to its high level of rapid success. Research has shown that 84% to 90% of people suffering from PTSD due to rape, natural disasters, catastrophic illness, the loss of a child or other loved one, or other traumas, fully recover after only three sessions of EMDR. | | The term anxiety disorder refers to a category of disturbances that includes generalized anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. A panic attack is an acute anxiety episode that may be accompanied by sweating, shortness of breath, hot or cold flashes, heart palpitations, and other forms of discomfort. Anxiety disorders occur in people of all ages, but appear to be more common among women. The exact cause is complex, involving constitutional factors, emotional stress, biochemical imbalances, and environmental triggers. | | Among its current applications are alcoholism and addiction, autism, brain disorders and injuries (including early- and mid-stage Alzheimer's disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, coma, and closed head injury), cancer, psychiatric disorders (including anxiety or panic attacks, bipolar and unipolar depression, mood swings, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, rage, and schizophrenia), chronic pain, and strokes. Other demonstrated benefits include improvements in short-term memory, concentration, speech, motor skills, sleep patterns, and emotional balance. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  These were the discovery of the utility of hypnotic techniques in the treatment of what was then called battle fatigue (what we now refer to as post-traumatic stress disorder), and the appearance on the American psychiatric scene of a uniquely gifted and influential practitioner and researcher, Milton Erickson.
Psychiatrists used hypnosis to help soldiers recover and reintegrate the traumatizing battlefield experiences that they had repressed, and return to action. |
Ruth Winter
See book keywords and concepts |  MAOIs may also be used for cases of mixed anxiety and depression, depression accompanied by pain, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar depression. The drug works by raising the level of neurotransmitters by preventing their destruction by enzymes. People taking MAOIs must adhere to a special diet because of the interaction of the medications with certain foods. Foods that contain tyramine such as cheeses, yogurt, sour cream, beef or chicken livers, and red wines should be avoided. The combination of MAOIs and tyramine can shoot up blood pressure to dangerous levels. |
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