Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Flashcards
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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chronic physiological arousal, recurrent unwanted thoughts or images of the trauma, and avoidance of things that call the traumatic event to mind
-stress related disorder/ disorders precipitated by traumas, however not all soliders come back with PTSD
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Symptoms
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flashbacks, exaggerated anxiety and startle reactions, and medical conditions that do not arise from physical damage
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Etiology
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trauma, neural correlations which can be genetic and that means they are already predisposed to PTSD like increased amygdala activity, reduced activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, and smaller hippocampus which is linked to memory
