Because there is no current blood test, urine test, ultrasound, or sophisticated imaging technique that can definitively diagnose PTSD these definitions matter. In the DSM-5-TR you will find ...

According to the current definition in the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), PTSD occurs subsequent to a trauma that constitutes ...

Nonetheless, an important shortcoming of this study was that existence of PTSD symptoms was measured with the IES rather than Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-IV ... 21/2, 5 and 9 ...