Article: Hypnotherapy in the treatment of chronic combat-related PTSD patients suffering from insomnia: A randomized, zolpidem-controlled clinical trial

Article: A controlled study to assess the effects on anxiety and pain in the postoperative period
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis;  October 1, 2005 ;     165 words ......were randomly assigned to either a hypnosis group or to a no-treatment control group. The hypnosis group received a single session of hypnosis...perception levels. The patients in the hypnosis group demonstrated lower levels of anxiety...

Article: Iraq veterans find forgetting the hardest part of killing
Oakland Tribune;  April 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ......sometimes 10 or 15 times." The brains of PTSD patients show shrinkage of the hippocampus and...years after the danger has passed. PTSD patients continue to produce abnormal levels...recent study at Fort Bragg, N.C., shows PTSD patients have lower levels of a neurotransm

Article: Westmoreland County's PTSD patients find help near at hand
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  May 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Veterans may be the most visible group of PTSD patients, but they aren't the only ones to have...care at the VA Primary Care Center, PTSD patients have a better chance of finding the...run by the VA, says one in every five PTSD patients is afraid to get help because of what...

Article: Lack of cortisol response in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) undergoing a diagnostic interview.(Research article)
BMC Psychiatry;  October 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ......investigation of baseline alterations in PTSD patients, several challenge paradigms have been...investigate the stress response in PTSD patients. These paradigms can be broadly distinguished...challenge tests have been conducted with PTSD patients [26, 27, 28, 29, 30]. In these ...

Article: [beta]2-nAChR Availability in PTSD
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  March 1, 2008 ;     209 words ......The study included never-smoking PTSD patients, neversmoking healthy volunteers, and...ClinicianAdministered PTSD Scale. Neversmoking PTSD patients showed significantly higher tracer...than neversmoking healthy controls. PTSD patients showed a significant correlation between...

Article: A randomized clinical of a brief hypnosis intervention to control side effects in breast surgery patients
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis;  January 1, 2008 ;     686 words ......the procedure. The patients in the hypnosis group did report significantly less pain...listening group. The patients in the hypnosis group also used less anesthesia and medication...around $8,500. The patients in the hypnosis group required significantly less time in...

Article: Review of international literature
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......group, and each delivered one baby. The hypnosis group infants had significantly better Apgar...delivery compared to 38% (14/36) women in the hypnosis group. Only 5.5% of the hypnosis group required analgesia compared to 75% of the...

Article: Virtual Reality Brings Therapy to PTSD Patients
Military Medicine;  July 1, 2008 ;     473 words ......said. According to Reger, many PTSD patients talk about their experience like...the experience it recreates for PTSD patients. It is the virtual world's potential...Virtual Reality Brings Therapy to PTSD Patients", June 10, 2008

Article: Randomized clinical trial of local anesthetic versus a combination of local anesthetic with self-hypnosis in the management of pediatric procedure-related pain
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis;  October 1, 2006 ;     259 words ......Analgesic Cream only. The children in the hypnosis group were taught self-hypnosis and therefor...was significantly correlated with the hypnosis group's hypnotic ability scores as assessed...Interestingly, some of the benefits for the hypnosis group were also seen in the Empathie ...

Article: SA: Trauma and memory loss link to be studied
AAP General News (Australia);  August 5, 2002 ;     324 words ......team would scan the brains of about 20 PTSD patients to determine the amount of acetylcholine...Ms Goble said it was suspected that PTSD patients also had lower than average levels...together. Symptoms prevalent among PTSD patients included short-term memory loss and...

Article: Old drug, new use: Prazosin shows promise in quieting veterans' nightmares
Charleston Gazette;  January 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ......stress disorder. Now though, a group of PTSD patients at the Veterans Administration hospital...patients. He estimates about 1,000 PTSD patients in the Puget Sound region are using...first Gulf War and one of Raskind's PTSD patients. Veterans say subtle changes in their...

Article: Old drug quiets the nightmares of war.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......disorder (PTSD). Now though, a group of PTSD patients at the Veterans Administration hospital...patients. He estimates about 1,000 PTSD patients in the Puget Sound region are using...first Gulf War and one of Raskind's PTSD patients. Veterans say subtle changes in their...

Article: PTSD patients have lower glucocorticoid receptor expression in lymphocytes.
Immunotherapy Weekly;  April 9, 2003 ;     406 words ......APR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- PTSD patients have lower glucocorticoid receptor...matched post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients within 8 years from the traumatic event. PTSD patients had a lower relative quantity of GCR...

Article: PILOT STUDY SUGGESTS HYPNOSIS AIDS IN HEALING FRACTURES.
HealthInform: Essential Information on Alternative Health Care;  October 1, 1999 ;     378 words ......clinical orthopedic examinations and radiological tests. The hypnosis group completed a questionnaire assessing the value of their hypnosis...first been administered prior to treatment. Results: The hypnosis group tended to have faster healing up to nine weeks after the...