**Meet the editor**

Dr Emilio Ovuga, PhD is Professor of Mental Health and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Gulu University in northern Uganda, and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Dr Ovuga completed his undergraduate medical education at Makerere University in 1976, and postgraduate training in psychiatry at the same university in 1981. Dr Ovuga holds

a joint PhD of Karolinska Institute, Sweden and Makerere University, Uganda in suicidology and psychiatric epidemiology. Dr Ovuga worked at Makerere University, serving that institution in various capacities including being Head of the Department of Psychiatry and member of several committees of Senate from 1989 to 2006. Outside his home country, Uganda, Dr Ovuga worked as a psychiatrist in Kenya from 1981 to 1984 and the Transkei homeland of South Africa from 1984 to 1989. Apart from active administrative duties, Dr Ovuga is also currently working on the development of a vibrant research ethics review system in Uganda where he is Chair of the Forum of Institutional Review Committees in Uganda (FICU).

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Overview of Clinical Aspects 1** 

Amarendra Narayan Prasad

Chapter 3 **Psychiatric Management of Military-**

**Part 2 Review of Etiological Factors 71** 

Chapter 5 **Peritraumatic Distress in Accident** 

Chapter 6 **Sex Differences in PTSD 113** 

Chapter 7 **Risk Factors and Hypothesis for** 

Chapter 4 **Acquisition of Active Avoidance Behavior** 

**in an Animal Model of PTSD 73** 

**Stress, Depressive and Anxiety** 

Dorte Christiansen and Ask Elklit

**Posttraumatic Stress Disorder** 

**(PTSD) in Post Disaster Survivors 143**  Frank Huang-Chih Chou and Chao-Yueh Su

Chapter 2 **Combat Related Posttraumatic** 

Chapter 1 **Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – An Overview 3** 

**Stress Disorder – History, Prevalence, Etiology, Treatment, and Comorbidity 25** 

Jenny A. Bannister, James J. Mahoney III and Tam K. Dao

**Related PTSD: Focus on Psychopharmacology 51**  Don J. Richardson, Jitender Sareen and Murray B. Stein

**as a Precursor to Changes in General Arousal** 

**Survivors: An Indicator for Posttraumatic** 

**Symptoms, and Posttraumatic Growth 97**  Daisuke Nishi, Masato Usuki and Yutaka Matsuoka

Thomas M. Ricart, Richard J. Servatius and Kevin D. Beck
