Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disorder triggered by traumatic experiences such as accidents, ...

Research on post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury is voluminous but inadequate when it comes to predicting future violent behavior.

Dialectical behavior therapy and cognitive processing therapy appeared to improve PTSD symptoms among women who survived childhood abuse, according to results of a randomized clinical trial ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have now demonstrated that behavior therapy that exposes people to memories of their trauma doesn't cause relapses of opioid or other drug use, and that PTSD severity and ...

While it is true that criminal behavior is not necessarily a result of PTSD, War Combat situations where there are no standard rules of so-called normal civilian society can and does create a ...

Specific cerebral circuitry bridges chemical changes deep in the brain and the more outward behavioral expressions associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which could lead to more ...

People who live in the most deprived areas of the UK experience post-traumatic stress disorder at three times the rate of ...

Posttraumatic stress disorder resulting from intimate partner violence (IPV-related PTSD), drug problems, and alcohol problems were tested as correlates of women's sexual risk behavior ...

In my own work, when we looked at people who had recently been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, about 14% of them suffered from PTSD. It’s not the norm. Whenever a mass shooter has a military ...

So, can PTSD cause criminal behavior? Yes and no. There is no doubt that PTSD can cause a person to make bad choices that lead to antisocial behaviors. Increased use of alcohol or drugs can lead ...