What is post-traumatic stress disorder?

Nancy C Andreasen

doi:10.31887/DCNS.2011.13.2/nandreasen

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What is post-traumatic stress disorder?

Nancy C Andreasen

Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, Vol.13(3), pp.240-243

2011

DOI: 10.31887/DCNS.2011.13.2/nandreasen

PMCID: PMC3182007

PMID: 22033951

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Abstract

Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) are categorized as separate and discrete disorders, the boundary between them is sometimes indistinct. Their separation is based on the assumption that PTSD results primarily from psychological stress, while TBI is the consequence of an identifiable injury to the brain. This distinction is based on an antiquated polarity between mind and brain, and the separation of the two disorders often becomes arbitrary in day-to-day psychiatric practice and research.

Brain Injuries - complications

Humans

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - diagnosis

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - complications

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Title: Subtitle: What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
Creators: Nancy C Andreasen
Resource Type: Editorial
Publication Details: Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, Vol.13(3), pp.240-243
DOI: 10.31887/DCNS.2011.13.2/nandreasen
PMID: 22033951
PMCID: PMC3182007
NLM abbreviation: Dialogues Clin Neurosci
ISSN: 1294-8322
eISSN: 1958-5969
Publisher: France
Language: English
Date published: 2011
Academic Unit: Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984003450102771

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