Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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

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