There are few clinical problems in the sleep medicine field that are more challenging than the sleep difficulties experienced by individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This book offers a unique, complete resource addressing all the basic concepts and clinical applications in sleep medicine in settings where combat-related PTSD is commonplace. Authored by leading international experts in the field of sleep/military medicine, Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is organized in six sections and provides a broad perspective of the field, from the established theories to the most recent developments in research, including the latest neuroscientific perspectives surrounding sleep and PTSD. The result is a full assessment of sleep in relation to combat-related PTSD and a gold standard volume that is the first of its kind. This comprehensive title will be of great interest to a wide range of clinicians — from academics and clinicians working within or in partnership with the military health care system to veteran hospital physicians and all health personnel who work with war veterans.
Part 1: Introduction
Ch. 1: War, Sleep and PTSD: War and War-related Trauma: An Overview
Ch. 2: Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Prevalence and Risk Factors
Ch. 3: Sleep as a Mediator of mTBI and PTSD
Ch. 4: Gender Differences in Sleep and War Zone-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Part 2: Military Deployment and Sleep
Ch. 5: The Role Of Sleep In The Health And Resiliency Of Military Personnel
Ch. 6: Sleep Disturbance during Military Deployment
Ch. 7: Sleep and fatigue issues in military operations
Ch. 8: Suicidal Behavior in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Focus on Combat Exposure
Part 3: Neuroscience PTSD and Sleep
Ch. 9: PBRM1: Genetics of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Sleep Disturbance
Ch. 10: The Neurocircuitry of Fear and PTSD
Ch. 11: Brain Pathways of Traumatic Memory: Evidence from an Animal Model of PTSD
Ch. 12: Brain Structural Abnormalities in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Relations with Sleeping Problems
Ch. 13: PET Ligands Binding Specific Imaging Proteins in the Brain: The Application in PTSD
Part 4: Assessment of Sleep in relation to combat related PTSD
Ch. 14: Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Ch. 15: Sleep Disturbances and Sleep Assessment Methods in PTSD
Ch. 16: Sleep Changes in PTSD
Ch. 17: Actigraphy and PTSD
Ch. 18: The Extreme Nocturnal Manifestation of Trauma: Trauma Associated Sleep Disorder
Ch. 19: PTSD, arousal and disrupted (REM) sleep
Ch. 20: The Psychophysiology of PTSD Nightmares
Ch. 21: Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Ch. 22: Heart Rate Variability, Sleep, and the early detection of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Ch. 23: Sleep, Declarative Memory, and PTSD: Current Status and Future Directions
Part 5: Treatments of sleep disturbances in PTSD
Ch. 24: Psychotherapy Interventions for Comorbid Sleep Disorders and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Ch. 25: Cognitive Processing Therapy and Trauma-Related Sleep Disturbance
Ch. 26: Imagery Rehearsal Therapy for PTSD-related Nightmares
Ch. 27: Nightmare Deconstruction and Reprocessing for PTSD Nightmares
Ch. 28: Hypnotic Interventions for Sleep in PTSD
Ch. 29: Medication for sleep problems in posttraumatic stress disorder
Ch. 30: Pharmacology of Sleep and PTSD
Part 6: Specific Populations
Ch. 31: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Youth Exposed to War and Terror
Ch. 32: Predicting sleep quality and duration in adulthood from war-related exposure and posttraumatic stress in childhood
Ch. 33: Sleep disorders among Holocaust survivors
Ch.34 : Sleep Studies in Serbian Victims of Torture: analysis of traumatic dreams
Eric Vermetten, MD, PhD
Colonel, Head of Research – Military Mental Health Care, Ministry of Defense, The Netherlands
Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Arq Psychotrauma Research Group, Diemen, the Netherlands
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, New York School of Medicine, USA
Anne Germain, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA
Thomas Neylan, MD
Department of Psychiatry
UCSF School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA
There are few clinical problems in the sleep medicine field that are more challenging than the sleep difficulties experienced by individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This book offers a unique, complete resource addressing all the basic concepts and clinical applications in sleep medicine in settings where combat-related PTSD is commonplace. Authored by leading international experts in the field of sleep/military medicine, Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is organized in six sections and provides a broad perspective of the field, from the established theories to the most recent developments in research, including the latest neuroscientific perspectives surrounding sleep and PTSD. The result is a full assessment of sleep in relation to combat-related PTSD and a gold standard volume that is the first of its kind. This comprehensive title will be of great interest to a wide range of clinicians — from academics and clinicians working within or in partnership with the military health care system to veteran hospital physicians and all health personnel who work with war veterans.
Provides the most comprehensive overview of the interface between sleep disorders and combat-related PTSD
