TULIP LAB

The TULiP Lab is a research group at York University that optimizes interventions and identifies treatment targets for... ​Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental illness that affects approximately 6.1-9.2% of individuals in Canada and the United States (Van Ameringen, Mancini, Patterson, & Boyle, 2008; Goldstein et al., 2016). PTSD may develop following exposure to a traumatic experience (e.g., actual or threatened death, serious injury), and is characterized by a combination of symptoms from four distinct "clusters" which persist longer than one month (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The first cluster is re-experiencing, where the individual relives the traumatic experience (e.g., recurrent nightmares, flashbacks). The second cluster of symptoms is avoidance, which could be of situations associated with the trauma, as well as of other trauma-related emotions, thoughts or memories. The third cluster is negative changes in mood or cognition, which may include..

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