Does Stress Damage the Brain?
Understanding Trauma-Related Disorders from a Mind-Body Perspective

J. Douglas Bremner

Overview – Excerpt – Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

PART I:  MIND AND THE BRAIN FROM A TRAUMA-CENTRIC PERSPECTIVE

1. The Lasting Effects of Stress on the Mind and Brain

2. The Working Mind: What It Does and Why

3. Evolving Concepts for the Biology Stress

4. Effects of Stress on Memory and the Brain

PART II:  THE WIDENING INFLUENCE OF TRAUMA IN THE WORLD TODAY

5. The Scope and Breadth of Traumatic Stress in Society Today

6. A Brief History of the Classification of Stress-Induced Psychiatric Illness

7. PTSD and Other Stress-Related Psychiatric Disorders as diseases of the Brain Caused by Stress

8. Treatments for PTSD and Other Stress-Related Disorders May Act Through the Brain

9. The Whole-Body Approach to Understanding Traumatic Stress

References

Index

About the Author

J. Douglas Bremner, M.D., is Director of the Emory Center for Positron Emission Tomography at Emory University Hospital, Director of Mental Health Research at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, and is the editor of Trauma, Memory, and Dissociation and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

ISBN: 0-393-70474-2
April, 2005
Paperback, 311 pages