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Psychoneuroendocrinology of post-traumatic stress disorder
1Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Bronx Veterans Affairs, New York, New York, USA.
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America
|July 22, 1998
Abstract:
In 1980, the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was established to describe the long-lasting symptoms that can occur following exposure to extremely stressful life events. This article reviews the findings of neuroendocrinologic alterations in PTSD and summarizes the finding of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA), catecholamine, hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) systems. These are the neuroendocrine systems that have been studied in PTSD. Also included is a review of the basic facts about PTSD and biologic data.