Improving Diagnostics and Treatments for GWI Females by Accounting for the Effects of PTSD

Abstract

Our objective to disentangle the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from Gulf War Illness (GWI) to understand the role that post-traumatic stress plays in the symptoms and perpetuation of GWI in female veterans. This is being accomplished by performing a secondary systems biology analysis for female subjects based on resources, methodology and results from our ongoing GWI research initiatives. We have made substantive progress towards Year 1 objectives including consolidation and evaluation of trauma scores in GWI symptoms measures, subtyping of GWI subjects based on a Davidson Trauma Score cutoff, and preliminary statistical analysis of symptom measures in subtypes compared to healthy controls supporting the hypothesis that both subgroups are distinct from controls.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1048454

Entities

People

  • G. Broderick
  • N. G. Klimas
  • S. Messer
  • Travis J. Craddock

Organizations

  • Nova Southeastern University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Computational Biology
  • Computational Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Medical Personnel
  • Muscular Diseases
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Surveys
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.
  • Systems Analysis and Design