Studies have revealed that 61 percent of men will have experienced a traumatic event in their lifetime. The National Co-morbidity Survey indicates that 5 percent of men, nationwide, will develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder during their lifetime. A research conducted and published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2005 concluded that 17 percent of Iraq war veterans suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression or stress.
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Fifteen percent of heart attack victims will suffer from PTSD. The recently conducted research focused on men, and of course proves that people are different in the way they handle and respond to stressful and traumatic conditions. Even national strife, surgeries, accidents and such can impact some profoundly while others can more easily cope with acute injury. Every individual has stress hormones.
The effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder include the ones which are well known, such as depression, insomnia, anxiety, flashbacks and blackouts; but the ramifications which aren’t so well known are more physical than emotional, such as immune system problems, ulcers, and a substantial increase in levels of a blood clotting agent that brings forth the state of arteriosclerosis, which increases the chance of cardiovascular disease.
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Researchers are studying the use of a drug called propranolol for treatment of people who suffer from PTSD. Some patients are being issued the medication while others are given the placebo. However, the patients don’t know they are receiving. Propranolol belongs to the drug family of beta-blockers that are already being used. These are now being used for people who suffer with anxiety.
The study, being led up by Dr. Roger Pitman, M.D., focuses on getting the drug administered within six hours of the injury. Other researchers attempt to extend that window, and use a procedure, memory”reconsolidation,” where a memory is revisited subsequentially following such memory is moved to long term storage in the mind. One such researcher is Karim Nader, Ph.D., a researcher at McGill University, in Montreal. Nader practices memory “reconsolidation” and states,”But what I discovered is that as soon as you access a memory, then you need to restore it. It’s kind of like shooting a file off the hard drive and placing it into RAM-you need to save it to the hard drive all over again, or elements of it could get lost.” He feels that since we do not know when injury will strike, giving the pill within six hours may not be possible.
