J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.
Release Date: 05/26/2015
Upon completion of this Cyberounds®, you should be able to:
List the effects of stressors such as combat or childhood abuse on the brain and cognition, and the implications for health, public policy, rehabilitation and psychiatric treatment;
Describe studies that show smaller volume of the hippocampus in posttraumatic stress disorder with associated cognitive memory deficits and explain theories behind these findings and effects of treatment on memory and the hippocampus;
Discuss how dysfunction of medial prefrontal cortex and increased function in the amygdala may contribute to symptoms of stress-related disorders like PTSD, and the effects of treatment on these brain areas;
Apply treatments for stress-related disorders, including PTSD and depression, that have been shown to have efficacy for these conditions.
