PTSD

Question 1

What are the symptoms of PTSD?

Answer 1

Identifiable trauma, trauma is re-experienced, avoidance, increased arousal

Question 2

What facilitates a PTSD diagnosis?

Answer 2

Cooccurrence of these symptoms for more than six months and more than a month after the trauma.

Question 3

What is the vulnerability in people for PTSD?

Answer 3

bigger sympathetic response basally

Question 4

What is an altered sympathetic stress response?

Answer 4

more epinephrine release than normal

Question 5

NE and PTSD correlation?

Answer 5

people with PTSD have more NE throughout the day, its a chicken and egg scenario

Question 6

Why is it hard to find if higher basal levels of NE predispose people to PTSD?

Answer 6

Ethics…. cant give people PTSD or trauma

Question 7

What are some treatments that are not common?

Answer 7

prevent over consolidation and and disrupt reconsolidate

Question 8

What is done when you disrupt consolidation?

Answer 8

Disrupting the reconsolidation can erase the memory because when a memory is recalled, the process is involved in memory formation.

Question 9

What is seen is female trauma-exposed women’s brains?

Answer 9

smaller mPFC: similar chicken and egg scenario