Re-conceptualizing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a Neuropsychological Condition // اضطراب ما بعد الصدمة كحالة نفسية-عصبية: نظرية بديلة

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Re-conceptualizing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a Neuropsychological Condition // اضطراب ما بعد الصدمة كحالة نفسية-عصبية: نظرية بديلة

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Author(s): Antonio E. Puente

Publication date (Print): 2017

Journal: Bethlehem University Journal

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: PTSD, neuropsychology

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This study aims at re-conceptualizing PTSD as a neuropsychological construct and reconsidering the understanding of both the perpetrator and victim of the trauma from a neuropsychological perspective. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is considered a modern mental disorder secondary to an individual's experience of emotional trauma. Further such trauma should disappear or be adjusted to as a function of the passage of time and as a function of psychotherapeutic interventions. The findings of this study reveal that PTSD produces changes that are neurocognitive in nature. Furthermore, significant neuropsychological deficits arise as a function of PTSD or at least some forms of PTSD via acute or chronic traumatic exposure.

تهدف هذه الورقة الى إعادة صياغة تصنيف مفهوم اضطراب ما بعد الصدمة النفسية كاضطراب شي عصبي، كما تحاول فهم وتفسير سلوك كل ض الجاني والضحية من منظور نفسي عصبي. ويعتبر اضطراب توتر ما بعد الصدمة (PTSD) اضطرائا نفسيا حديى، حيث تظهر أعراضه بعد تعرضى الفرد لصدمة نفسية. ويمكن أن تختفي مثل هذه الصدمات أو يتم التأقلم معها بمرور الوقت أو بمساعدة العلاجات النفسية. انئاوت نتائج هذه الدراسة الى أن اضطراب ما بعد الصدمة يؤدي إلى تغيرات عصبية معرفية. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، تظهر مشاكل شية عصبية واضحة كنتيجة لاضطراب ما بعد الصدمة أو على الأقل لبعمن أنواعه كاضطراب توتر ما بعد الصدمة المزض.

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Journal ID (doi): 10.13169

Journal ID (publisher-id): bethunivj

Title: Bethlehem University Journal

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ISSN (Print): 25213695

ISSN (Electronic): 24105449

Publication date (Print): 2017

Volume: 34

Pages: 105-112

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DOI: 10.13169/bethunivj.34.2017.0105

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Keywords: PTSD,neuropsychology

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[1] American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders , 5th Edition. Washington, DC: APA Press.

[2] Alastair L. B., & Gemma A. L E. (2015). EMDR treatment for PTSD and Intellectual Disability: a case study. Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities , 9(2), 90–98.

[3] Aupperle, R.L., Melrose, A. J., Stein, M. B., & Paulus, M. P. (2011). Executive function and PTSD: Disengaging from trauma. Neuropharmacology , 62(2), 686–94.

[4] Brewin, C.R., Andrews, B., & Valentin, J.D. (2000). Meta-analysis of risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder in trauma-exposed adults. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , 65 (8), 748–766.

[5] Brewin, C.R., Leiner, J. S., Vasterling, J. J., & Field, A. P. (2007). Implicit memory and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology , 7, 203–227.

[6] Bueso-Izquierdo, N., Hidalgo-Ruzzante, N., Daugherty, J. C., Burneo-Garcés, C., & Pérez-García, M. (2016). Differences in Executive Function Between Batterers and Other Criminals. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice , 16(5), 321–335.

[7] Fasfous, A.F., Peralta-Ramirez, I., & Perez-Garcia, M. (2013). Symptoms of PTSD among children living in war zones in same cultural context and different situations. Journal of Muslim Mental Health , 7(2), 47–61.

[8] Merriman, J. M., & Winter, J. M. (2006). Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the age of war and reconstruction New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons.

[9] Mott, F. W. (1919). War neuroses and shell shock London: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton.

[10] Puente, A. E. (1993). Sperry's emergent interactionism as a new explanation for dualism. Journal of General Psychology , 120(1), 65–72.

[11] Puente, A.E., Sekely, A, Wang, C., & Steed, A. (in press). Neuropsychological consequences of blast injuries and PTSD in a large military sample. Archives of Scientific Psychology

[12] Wertheimer, M. (2012). A brief history of psychology New York: Psychology Press.