Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent, debilitating and sometimes deadly
consequence of exposure to severe psychological trauma. Although effective treatments …

Mindfulness-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have emerged as
promising adjunctive or alternative intervention approaches. A sco** review of the …

This article describes the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria
(RDoC) initiative. The description includes background, rationale, goals, and the way the …

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs in 5–10% of the population and is twice as
common in women as in men. Although trauma exposure is the precipitating event for PTSD …

Evolution has endowed all humans with a continuum of innate, hard-wired, automatically
activated defense behaviors, termed the defense cascade. Arousal is the first step in …

Psilocybin-occasioned mystical experiences have been linked to persisting effects in healthy
volunteers including positive changes in behavior, attitudes, and values, and increases in …

Although approximately 90% of the US population will experience a traumatic event within
their lifetime, only a fraction of those traumatized individuals will develop posttraumatic …

Objective Clinical and neurobiological models posited that dissociative mechanisms might
affect processes involved in emotional generation and regulation. However, there is a lack of …

This new edition of Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice reflects a vibrant field
undergoing development along a number of dimensions important for mental health. As …

Posttraumatic stress disorder can be viewed as a disorder of fear dysregulation. An
abundance of research suggests that the prefrontal cortex is central to fear processing—that …