PTSD Relief Comes With a Mantra (CME/CE)

Transcendental meditation has potential benefits for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a small case series of U.S. military veterans showed.  Five veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars all had significant improvement on the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) -- the gold standard for the assessment and diagnosis of PTSD -- after eight weeks of meditation (P=0.02), according to Joshua Rosenthal, MD, of Capital Clinical Research Associates in Rockville, Md., and colleagues.