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June 05, 2007
PILOTS Database
The Thompson Library now has access to the PILOTS Database (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress), published by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and hosted by CSA Illumina. With 31,000 citations dating back to 1871**, links to Journal Finder, and monthly updates, this is a go-to source for research on post-traumatic stress disorder and similar conditions.
Aside from PTSD, PILOTS covers "acute stress disorder (with or without reference to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders); the assessment, description, prevention, or treatment of any psychiatric disorder, especially dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder), other dissociative disorders, or borderline personality disorder, associated etiologically or epidemiologically with exposure to a traumatic event, or to an event experienced as traumatic by the population under discussion; the preparation or provision of mental health services to a traumatized population or a population at risk of experiencing traumatic events issues of professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to traumatized populations." [Source]
** The earliest article in PILOTS is "On irritable heart; a clinical study of a form of functional cardiac disorder and its consequences" by J.M. DaCosta that appeared in the January, 1871 American Journal of the Medical Sciences (61:121, 17-52), and which concerned Civil War veterans. Read the article.
Posted by pgstreby at June 5, 2007 01:23 PM