CNB Medical News: Risk Patterns Identified That Make People More Vulnerable to PTSD

Newswise — NEW YORK, NY – Researchers have built a new computational tool that identifies 800 different ways people are at increased risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), permitting for the first time a personalized prediction guide.

Results from the study out of NYU Langone Medical Center are published online in the journal BMC Psychiatry.

\”Our study shows that high-risk individuals who have experienced a traumatic event can be identified less than two weeks after they are first seen in the emergency department,\” says Arieh Y. Shalev, MD, the Barbara Wilson Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone and a co-director of NYU’s Steven and Alexandra Cohen Veterans Center. \”Until now, we have not had a tool – in this case a computational algorithm — that can weigh the many different ways in which trauma occurs to individuals and provides a personalized risk estimate.\”