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Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.168.7.a28

Visual Bias Linked to PTSD and Depressed Symptoms in Deployed Soldiers

Predeployment eye-tracking studies showed that soldiers who turned their gaze away from fearful faces, toward faces with other expressions, had more symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when they encountered war zone stress. Beevers et al. (CME, p. 735) also found that participants concentrating on sad faces developed higher levels of depressive symptoms after war-related stress. The associations were stronger for soldiers with greater stress.

Soldiers' predeployment gaze bias was linked to PTSD and depression after war zone stress (Beevers et al., p. 735)

New Habits Die Hard in OCD

Newly learned associations between stimuli and rewards were harder to break for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) than for healthy subjects. When Gillan et al. (p. 718) replaced some of the rewards with negative feedback, the patients were more prone to continue to respond to these stimuli.

Refractory Depression in the Elderly

A meta-analysis of treatments for depressed patients age 55 and older who had not responded in a previous treatment trial found an overall 52% rate of response to a subsequent trial. Cooper et al. (p. 681) identified 10 studies and found support for lithium augmentation in more than one.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 168 • Number 7 • July 2011

Pages: A28

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Published online: 1 July 2011

Published in print: July 2011

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In This Issue

Visual Bias Linked to PTSD and Depressed Symptoms in Deployed Soldiers

New Habits Die Hard in OCD

Refractory Depression in the Elderly