Tag: PTSD
Dual Sympathetic Reset for PTSD
Dual Sympathetic Reset is being promoted as a treatment for PTSD prior to any convincing clinical evidence.
Treating Nightmares with a Smart Watch
Preliminary evidence suggests a watch may help people with severe nightmares. Of course, more research is needed.
Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE)
TRE exercises can supposedly cure PTSD by inducing tremors. Not credible. And there's no science to support the claims.
Virtual Reality Treatment for PTSD
What does the evidence say about using virtual reality to treat PTSD?
Ecstasy for PTSD: Not Ready for Prime Time
Hundreds of desperate combat veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are reportedly seeking experimental treatment with an illegal drug from a husband-wife team in South Carolina. The Bonhoefers recently published a study showing that adding MDMA (ecstasy, the party drug) to psychotherapy was effective in eliminating or greatly reducing the symptoms of refractory PTSD. It was widely covered in the media, for...
PTSD Breakthrough?: It’s Not Science Just Because Someone Says So
It infuriates me when someone misappropriates the word “science” to promote treatments that are not actually based on science. I have just read a book entitled The PTSD Breakthrough: The Revolutionary Science-Based Compass Reset Program by Dr. Frank Lawlis, a psychologist who is the chief content advisor for Dr Phil and The Doctors. There is very little science in the book and...