Improving engagement and retention to treatment within VHA PTSD specialty care: Evolution of an outpatient program design.

The Veteran's Health Administration (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) clinical practice guidelines (2017) recommend individual, trauma-focused therapy as the gold standard of treatment for PTSD (i.e., evidence-based practices [EBP]).

Emotion in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: responses to affective pictures.

We examined emotional responses to standard affective pictures in 18 psychogenic nonepileptic seizure (PNES) patients. Given reports of trauma and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTS) in many PNES patients, comparison groups were seizure-free individuals high and low in PTS (PTS-high, PTS-low; n=18 per group). Patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (1) reported more emotional intensity to neutral and pleasant pictures than PTS-low and more intensity to neutral pictures than PTS-high, and (2) showed less positive emotional behavior to pleasant pictures than PTS-high.