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Actigraphy and PTSD

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Insomnia and nightmares are common symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in addition to wakeful symptoms of reexperiencing traumatic events and avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma. Sleep disturbance is frequently, though not often, the principal focus of therapy in PTSD. Emergence of insomnia following trauma may predict subsequent development of PTSD.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Sleep Medicine, VA North Texas Health Care System, Dallas, TX, USA

    Imran S. Khawaja

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    Imran S. Khawaja

  3. Department of Neurology, VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    Imran S. Khawaja

  4. Department of Psychiatry, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Joseph J. Westermeyer & Thomas D. Hurwitz

  5. University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Thomas D. Hurwitz

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Correspondence to Imran S. Khawaja .

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Eric Vermetten

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Anne Germain

  3. University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

    Thomas C. Neylan

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Khawaja, I.S., Westermeyer, J.J., Hurwitz, T.D. (2018). Actigraphy and PTSD. In: Vermetten, E., Germain, A., Neylan, T. (eds) Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7148-0_17

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