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4 Possible Subtypes of PTSD
Powerful statistical tools provide a granular look at posttraumatic consequences in adulthood.
Authors of work discussed below, Identifying PTSD symptoms typologies: A latent class analysis (Campell, Trachik, Goldberg and Simpson, 2020) highlight the “precision medicine” trend. Precision medicine (a more accurate but less warm label than “personalized medicine”) leverages tech and mathematical tools to individualize care.
These approaches are on the cutting edge of medicine, and as such are not always ready for primetime. They are often the subject of controversy. Some clinicians and patients are eager to try new things right away, while others prefer to wait to see if they work and if they cause unexpected adverse reactions (“side effects”).
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Precision medicine includes developments like pharmacogenomics to assist in selecting medications most likely to work well without side effects, and neuroimaging to guide treatment choice, for example determining whether psychotherapy or medications would be most likely to succeed for a given patient.
Recent research shows posttraumatic epigenetic changes are reversed by therapy. Functional neuroimaging shows successful therapy normalizes neural network activity in the…
