POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

• Section I: History and Nosology of PTSD
1. Conceptual History of PTSD
2. DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria for PTSD
3. Measures of PTSD Symptom Severity
4. PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury
5. PTSD and Medical Illness
6. PTSD and Neurodegenerative Disorders
• Section II: Epidemiology of PTSD
7. Trauma and PTSD in the United States
8. Trauma and PTS in Europe
9. PTSD in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
10. PTSD and War
11. PTSD Associated With Disaster
12. PTSD in Children
13. PTSD and Women
14. PTSD in LGBT Populations
• Section III: Pathophysiology in PTSD
15. Executive Function in PTSD
16. PTSD and Cognition
17. Epigenetics and PTSD
18. Structural and Functional Brain Imaging
19. Neurobiological Pathways Involved In Fear, Stress, and PTSD
20. Neuroendocrinology
21. Psychoneuroimmunology of PTSD
22. The Psychophysiology of PTSD
23. Sleep and PTSD
24. Animal Models for PTSD
• Section IV: Risk Factors
25. Child Abuse and Neglect as Risk Factors for PTSD
26. Genetic Approaches to PTSD
27. Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma
28. PTSD and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders
29. Ethnicity
• Section V: Treatment
30. Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
31. Psychotherapy: Cognitive Processing Therapy
32. Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic
33. Group Therapy
34. Antidepressants
35. Pharmacologic Treatment of Nightmares, Sleep Disturbance, and Daytime Hyperarousal in PTSD
36. Antipsychotics
37. Prevention of PTSD
38. The Role of Gluccocorticoids in the (Mal)adaptive Response to Traumatic Experience
39. Neuromodulation Methods in PTSD
40. Investigational Agents
41. Complementary and Alternative Medicine

This volume brings together the leaders in the field of PTSD research to present an up-to-date summary and understanding of this complex disorder. All of our current knowledge and controversies concerning the diagnosis, epidemiology, course, pathophysiology and treatment are described in detail. The evidence for efficacy for each of the different forms of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy is reviewed. Particular attention is paid to at-risk groups, including minorities, and coverage of PTSD throughout the world is reviewed as well. The authors present state-of-the-art findings in genetics, epigenetics, neurotransmitter function and brain imaging to provide the most current and comprehensive review of this burgeoning field.

Features
• Presents an up-to-date, thorough, and comprehensive overview of our current understanding of PTSD
• Authored and edited by the field's leading experts
• Covers all evidence-based treatments for PTSD, including psychopharmacological agents as well as individual psychotherapies

Authors
• Charles B. Nemeroff Leonard Miller Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
• Charles R. Marmar Lucius N. Littauer Professor, Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Director, Steven and Alexandra Cohen Veterans Center for Posttraumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury Faculty member, Neuroscience Institute, Faculty member, NYU College of Global Public Health, New York University School of Medicine