Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disorder that can arise after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event, leading to a heightened sense of danger and altered fight-or-flight ...

The pupils of someone with PTSD have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images, the study found A person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder, known as PTSD, is a mental health disorder that may develop following a traumatic event in which a person is exposed to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or ...

PTSD can stem from experiencing, witnessing, or learning about a severely traumatic event. Some examples may include military combat, sexual or physical assault, natural disasters, severe injury, ...

Celebrities and public figures have recently been more open about mental health conditions they deal with. This is a positive sign of vanishing stigma of mental illness and is also helps in reducing ...

The Orlando police officer diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after he removed bodies from Pulse nightclub must undergo another medical exam before a board will decide whether he receives a ...

PTSD is increasingly being diagnosed, and estimates suggest that 8% of women and 4% of men will be diagnosed with this disorder at some point in time. The exposure to a traumatic event is the catalyst ...

Michael MacIntyre, MD, is a board-certified general and forensic psychiatrist practicing general psychiatry at the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Los Angeles. You may develop PTSD from abusive ...