Experts: PTSD treatment must get physical
- Apr
- 02
Based on recent findings, Australian researchers say PTSD treatments need to change from solely psychological assistance to include a variety of physical symptoms as well. According to professor Alexander McFarlane, director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies at the University of Adelaide, “The ‘failure’ to treat the ‘biological’ symptoms of PTSD has not served […]
read moreResearchers look to experimental drug in new PTSD study
- Mar
- 22
Researchers in San Antonio, Texas are looking into an experimental drug that may help veterans cope with the stresses they experienced from war. PTSD expert and former Army psychiatrist Dr. Harry Croft joins us to speak about the study.
read morePTSD: A Real Nightmare
- Feb
- 10
According to the textbooks, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a condition that can result from exposure to “event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self and others, and during which the person’s response involved intense fear, helplessness or horror. Although we […]
read moreI Always Sit with My Back To The Wall: Why I Wrote The Book
- Feb
- 01
The Beginnings of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder I came to San Antonio in 1973 to serve in the US Army Medical Corps at Ft. Sam Houston. I was the medical director of the Army’s drug and alcohol program on post. It was towards the end of the Vietnam conflict and we never lacked for soldiers to […]
read moreHarry Croft Appears on Headline News’ ‘Primetime Justice With Ashleigh Banfield’ To Discuss Florida Airport Attack Perpetrator and PTSD
- Jan
- 18
Harry Croft Appears on Headline News’ ‘Primetime Justice With Ashleigh Banfield’ To Discuss Florida Airport Attack Perpetrator and PTSD Excerpt: Dr. Croft: In retrospect, we know he probably should have been kept longer. He shouldn’t have been given h gun back. >> Ashleigh Banfield: In retrospect, laws in place at the time. That’s the issue. […]
read moreScientists find possible PTSD relief
- Oct
- 09
An already-approved muscle relaxant may offer relief for U.S. military veterans and first responders suffering from combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Phase 2 trials of the drug, TNX-102 SL, which contains the same chemical property as Flexeril, identified a dose and administration method that statistically improved participants’ PTSD symptoms among several mental health indices. […]
read moreDoctors reveal promising research for new PTSD treatment
- Oct
- 09
SAN ANTONIO — Doctors are calling a new method an exciting step toward treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a disorder that affects as many as eight million adults during a given year, according to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Now, an old pill with a new use is being tested in San Antonio. In […]
read moreNew treatment for post-traumatic stress being tested in San Antonio
- Oct
- 09
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Post-traumatic stress affects more than seven million adults every year. Many of those affected are military service personnel who’ve returned from combat. There is no cure for PTS, but a new drug currently in clinical trials is looking like the best treatment so far. Solider Mark Bratton told Ivanhoe, […]
read moreShould You Try Flotation Therapy?
- Oct
- 09
If Mitch Jordan’s new BMW had suffered a hit-and-run accident eight months ago, the venture capitalist owner near Pasadena, California, would have fumed. “I would have felt such resentment and anger toward whoever this person was,” imagines Jordan, 48, whose last name has been changed to protect his privacy. But when that very scenario happened […]
read moreDealing with Combat Related PTSD Presentation Applauded
- Oct
- 03
I was honored to be one of three Master Lecturers at the PURE LATAM (Psychiatric Updates by Regional Experts — Latin America) Conference in Santiago, Chile this past weekend, speaking to 600 psychiatrists. In addition there was a live webcast to: Argentina, Columbia, Mexico, Brazil, Nicaragua & the Caribbean. My presentations on “Managing Depression to […]
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