Combat Disorders

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 3-year longitudinal study examining the effect of resilience on suicidality in veterans. 
  • A resting-state network comparison of combat-related PTSD with combat-exposed and civilian controls. 
  • A scheme for categorizing traumatic military events. 
  • Adverse race-related events as a risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder in Asian American Vietnam veterans. 
  • Alcohol misuse and psychological resilience among U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans. 
  • Alcohol use and trauma exposure among male and female veterans before, during, and after military service. 
  • Alcoholism in black Vietnam veterans: symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Alterations in the neural circuitry for emotion and attention associated with posttraumatic stress symptomatology. 
  • Ambulatory cardiovascular activity in Vietnam combat veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Ambulatory monitoring and physical health report in Vietnam veterans with and without chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Amygdala volume changes in posttraumatic stress disorder in a large case-controlled veterans group. 
  • Caregiver burden and psychological distress in partners of veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Caregiver burden in partners of Vietnam War veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Chapter 1 posttraumatic stress disorder: a view from the operating theater. 
  • Childhood trauma exposure in Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans: implications for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and adult functional social support. 
  • Chronic stress and adaptation. 
  • Clinical utility of the Primary Care--PTSD Screen among U.S. veterans who served since September 11, 2001. 
  • Common Data Elements in the Assessment of Military-Related PTSD Research Applied in the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD. 
  • Comparison of mental health between former child soldiers and children never conscripted by armed groups in Nepal. 
  • Complex PTSD in victims exposed to sexual and physical abuse: results from the DSM-IV Field Trial for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. 
  • Correlates of anger and hostility in Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. 
  • Criminal justice involvement, trauma, and negative affect in Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans. 
  • DNA methylation profiles are associated with complex regional pain syndrome after traumatic injury. 
  • Deployment characteristics and long-term PTSD symptoms. 
  • Derivation of the SPAN, a brief diagnostic screening test for post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • Design of a clinical effectiveness trial of in-home cognitive processing therapy for combat-related PTSD. 
  • Dissemination of evidence-based mental health interventions: importance to the trauma field. 
  • Divalproex in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in a veteran population. 
  • Effect of Group vs Individual Cognitive Processing Therapy in Active-Duty Military Seeking Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Exploration of the resilience construct in posttraumatic stress disorder severity and functional correlates in military combat veterans who have served since September 11, 2001. 
  • Factorial invariance of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms across three veteran samples. 
  • Familial psychiatric illness in chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Head injury and combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Health status, somatization, and severity of posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Intensive prolonged exposure therapy for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder: Design and methodology of a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Interpersonal and self-reported hostility among combat veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Lifetime sexual and physical victimization among male veterans with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • Lifetime trauma exposure among those with combat-related PTSD: Psychiatric risk among U.S. military personnel. 
  • Lifetime trauma exposure in veterans with military-related posttraumatic stress disorder: association with current symptomatology. 
  • Living in danger: the impact of chronic traumatization and the traumatic context on posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Longitudinal associations in the direction and prediction of PTSD symptoms and romantic relationship impairment over one year in post 9/11 veterans: A comparison of theories and exploration of potential gender differences. 
  • Measuring exposure to racism: development and validation of a Race-Related Stressor Scale (RRSS) for Asian American Vietnam veterans. 
  • Measuring mental health in child soldiers. 
  • Measuring results of treatment of PTSD. 
  • Moral engagement, combat trauma, and the lure of psychiatric dualism: why psychiatry is more than a technical discipline. 
  • Moral transgression during the Vietnam War: a path analysis of the psychological impact of veterans' involvement in wartime atrocities. 
  • Neuropsychological correlates of self-reported impulsivity and informant-reported maladaptive behaviour among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury history. 
  • Open trial of nefazodone for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • PTSD symptoms and family versus stranger violence in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. 
  • Patterns of appraisal and coping across different stressor conditions among former prisoners of war with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Peace and war: trajectories of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms before, during, and after military deployment in Afghanistan. 
  • Pharmacologic treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: a focus on antipsychotic use. 
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and self-reported physical health status among U.S. Military personnel serving during the Gulf War period: a population-based study. 
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in World War II naval veterans. 
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder is associated with attenuated baroreceptor sensitivity among female, but not male, smokers. 
  • Predicting mortality in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder thirty years after Vietnam. 
  • Predictors of emotional numbing in posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Predictors of lower-than-expected posttraumatic symptom severity in war veterans: The influence of personality, self-reported trait resilience, and psychological flexibility. 
  • Preliminary study of carbamazepine in post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • Problems in families of male Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Prospective study of externalizing and internalizing subtypes of posttraumatic stress disorder and their relationship to mortality among Vietnam veterans. 
  • Psychiatric Care of the Post-September 11 Combat Veteran: A Review. 
  • Randomized effectiveness trial of a brief course of acupuncture for posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Reduced hippocampal and amygdala activity predicts memory distortions for trauma reminders in combat-related PTSD. 
  • Rehabilitation of Combat-Related Injuries in the Veterans Administration: A Web of Support. 
  • Risk factors for mental disorder hospitalization after the Persian Gulf War: U.S. Armed Forces, June 1, 1991-September 30, 1993. 
  • Screening for violence risk in military veterans: predictive validity of a brief clinical tool. 
  • Self-report and longitudinal predictors of violence in Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans. 
  • Severe withdrawal symptoms after discontinuation of alprazolam in eight patients with combat-induced posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Sexual function outcomes in women treated for posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Sleep disturbance in chronic military-related PTSD: clinical impact and response to adjunctive risperidone in the Veterans Affairs cooperative study #504. 
  • Smoking in Vietnam combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • Social ecology interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder: what can we learn from child soldiers? 
  • Social support in Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: a comparative analysis. 
  • Some preliminary data on the psychological characteristics of Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorders. 
  • Survey analysis of combat-related stress disorders in Viet Nam veterans. 
  • The DST and posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • The Infrequency-Posttraumatic Stress Disorder scale (Fptsd) for the MMPI-2: development and initial validation with veterans presenting with combat-related PTSD. 
  • The critical warzone experiences (CWE) scale: initial psychometric properties and association with PTSD, anxiety, and depression. 
  • The dissociative subtype of PTSD: a replication and extension. 
  • The psychological risks of Vietnam: the NVVRS perspective. 
  • Threading the needle: when embroidery was used to treat shell-shock. 
  • Three- to four-year follow-up to an open trial of nefazodone for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Treatment Options for Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. 
  • Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. Evaluating outcome with a behavioral code. 
  • Trial of trazodone for posttraumatic stress disorder using a multiple baseline group design. 
  • Tribulin in post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • Validation of a multimethod assessment of posttraumatic stress disorders in Vietnam veterans. 
  • Validation of the Impact of Event Scale on a sample of American Vietnam veterans. 
  • Violence and hostility among families of Vietnam veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Violent behaviour and post-traumatic stress disorder in US Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Brancu, Mira, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry
  • Van Voorhees, Elizabeth E., Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine