Re-conceptualizing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a Neuropsychological Condition // اضطراب ما بعد الصدمة كحالة نفسية-عصبية: نظرية بديلة

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/bethunivj.34.2017.0105
• Pages: 105-112
• Published date: 01 January 2017
• Date: 01 January 2017
• Author: Antonio E. Puente

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BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY JOURNAL 34 (2017)

Re-conceptualizing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a

Neuropsychological Condition

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Antonio E. Puente

Abstract

This study aims at re-conceptualizing PTSD as a neuropsychological construct and

reconsidering the understanding of both the perpetrator and victim of the trauma from

a neuropsychological perspective. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is considered a

modern mental disorder secondary to an individual’s experience of emotional trauma.

Further such trauma should disappear or be adjusted to as a function of the passage of

time and as a function of psychotherapeutic interventions. The findings of this study reveal

that PTSD produces changes that are neurocognitive in nature. Furthermore, significant

neuropsychological deficits arise as a function of PTSD or at least some forms of PTSD via

acute or chronic traumatic exposure.

Key words: PTSD, neuropsychology

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