AIMS: To provide 12-month prevalence and disability burden estimates of a broad range of
mental and neurological disorders in the European Union (EU) and to compare these …

Recent community studies show that trauma exposure is higher in lower-income countries
compared with high-income countries. PTSD prevalence rates are largely similar across …

Importance Psychiatric reactions to life stressors are common in the general population and
may result in immune dysfunction. Whether such reactions contribute to the risk of …

Resilience is still often viewed as a unitary personality construct that, as a kind of
antinosological entity, protects individuals against stress-related mental problems. However …

Objectives To present current, nationally representative US findings on the past-year and
lifetime prevalences, sociodemographic correlates, psychiatric comorbidity, associated …

Objective To assess the association between stress related disorders and subsequent risk of
cardiovascular disease. Design Population based, sibling controlled cohort study. Setting …

Introduction: Firefighters and military personnel are public safety personnel who protect the
safety of individuals and their properties. They are usually exposed to traumatic events …

Abstract Nearly 100 years ago, Ivan Pavlov demonstrated that dogs could learn to use a
neutral cue to predict a biologically relevant event: after repeated predictive pairings …

Questions of how altered functioning of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis
contribute to the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) …

Introduction Illnesses requiring hospitalization are known to negatively impact psychological
well-being and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) after discharge. The impact of …