The Many Aspects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• By: JoAnn Difede, PhD Melissa Peskin, PhD Weill Cornell Medical College
• January 1st, 2013
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that may develop in individuals who have experienced or witnessed an event that involves threatened death or serious injury, such as military combat, physical or sexual assault, natural disaster, terrorist attack, or motor vehicle...

Recent Innovations in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• By: Judith Cukor, PhD JoAnn Difede, PhD NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
• January 1st, 2009
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The integration of technology and medicine is creating exciting possibilities for psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. A particularly intriguing one is the marriage of virtual reality technology to established behavioral principles and interventions for the treatment of anxiety disorders in...