Post Traumatic Stress Disorders: A Summary And Analysis

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Anyone can experience nightmares, for some this phenomenon will continue haunting them throughout their life. Nightmares can be extremely distressing and disturbing, often being accompanied by profound negative visual content so vivid it seems real. The effects of nightmares can take a serious toll on a person’s sleep, physical/mental health, wellbeing and quality of life (Kung et al., 2012). The importance and reasoning behind sleep still looms large (Scully, 2013). Considering the time across our lives spent asleep, it would seem an oversight to not learn everything we can about the events associated with sleep. Nightmares are classified as a parasomnia (Plante & Winkelman, 2008) which can be defined as unwanted experience surrounding or during the time of sleep (Schenck & Mahowald, 2005). Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) goes hand in hand with the prevalence of nightmares (Kung et al. 2012). With the violent world we live in today (Kung et al., 2012) progressively more ex-military personal are becoming a part of society (Kessler et al., 2005). Therefore continued research into the causes and potential treatments of these symptoms could significantly aid PTSD sufferers in managing their condition. …show more content…
Any differential difference in highlighted brain areas from the two states of consciousness could be decoded and used to help treat future patients of nightmares. It is predicted that patients will have significantly similar brain areas being active when perceiving a visual stimuli when they are both awake and