PTSD psychotherapy improves blood pressure but leaves HPA axis feedback sensitivity stable and unaffected: first evidence from a pre-post treatment study

Although key to development of tailored drugs for augmentation treatment of psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the biological correlates of PTSD remission are still unknown, probably because pre-post treatment studies searching for them are rare. Not even the feedback sensitivity of the otherwise well-studied hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis nor arterial blood pressure (BP), which was previously reported to be elevated in PTSD patients, have so far been analyzed during PTSD treatment.

Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - October 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Christine F. Schubert, Monika Schreckenbach, Thomas Kirmeier, Dominique J. Gall-Kleebach, Bastian Wollweber, Dominik R. Buell, Uhr M, Rita Rosner, Ulrike Schmidt Source Type: research