J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.
Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Psychiatric Institute, and National Center for PTSD-VA Connecticut Healthcare System.
Dr. Bremner reports no commercial conflict of interest.
This research reviewed in this paper was supported by a NIH-sponsored General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) Clinical Associate Physician (CAP) Award and a VA Research Career Development Award to Dr. Bremner, and the National Center for PTSD Grant.
Release Date: 05/08/2002
Termination Date: 05/08/2005
Estimated time to complete: 1 hour(s).
Albert Einstein College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this Cyberounds
®, the participant should be able to:
- Discuss how extreme stressors, including childhood abuse and combat, can have lasting effects on hippocampal-based verbal declarative memory and what the relevance of this to education, public policy, rehabilitation and psychiatric treatment
- Describe research findings showing reduction in volume of the hippocampus in posttraumatic stress disorder related to abuse or combat andtheoretical explanations for findings
- Describe how dysfunction of medial prefrontal cortex may contribute to symptoms of stress-related disorders like PTSD.
