May 24, 2012: Research Update

May 24, 2012: Research Update

The CDP's weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:

• Blue Star Families 2012 Military Family Lifestyle Survey.
• Military Disability System: Preliminary Observations on Efforts to Improve Performance (GAO).
• Predicting post-trauma stress symptoms from pre-trauma psychophysiologic reactivity, personality traits and measures of psychopathology.
• Susceptibility to PTSD-Like Behavior Is Mediated by Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Receptor Type 2 Levels in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis.