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A 2026 study of 3,419 Arabic-speaking women with a history of sexual violence found that more severe PTSD symptoms were linked to feeling less supported, and trauma-related shame explained m…
Read articleIn a 2026 interview study, people of color living with both PTSD and a substance use disorder described racism and sexism as part of how both conditions began.1 Women and men told different …
Read articleA Turkish version of the UCLA PTSD Reaction Index, a widely used child and teen PTSD questionnaire, separated trauma-exposed adolescents with and without PTSD well in a 157-person clinic stu…
Read articleSleep difficulties and tiredness were among the main symptoms linking depression and PTSD in a 2026 survey of 6,240 Chinese firefighters. Women reported somewhat higher scores for both condi…
Read articlePeople who reported a traumatic event were more credulous — quicker to take others’ word without checking — than people who reported none, according to a 2026 survey of 2,519 people in Germa…
Read articlePTSD symptom scores fell by about half among 94 US servicemembers who completed a 4-week program of EEG-guided magnetic brain stimulation, according to a 2026 chart review. The program had n…
Read articleA 2026 adolescent depression study used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to test whether childhood trauma leaves a measurable network signature in the depressed teen brain…
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