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Methods for preventing and treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  • US 9,707,274 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2013
  • Issued: 07/18/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for treating a patient for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) resulting from witnessing an event, the witnessed event consisting of an occupational situation involving violence, serious injury, and/or death, comprising:

  • identifying the patient witnessing the event;

    providing at least one effective amount of a therapeutic compound comprising an insulin;

    during the patient'"'"'s witnessing of the event, administering the at least one effective amount of the therapeutic compound comprising an insulin to the upper one-third of the nasal cavity of the patient, thereby enabling the administered at least one effective amount of the therapeutic compound comprising an insulin to bypass the patient'"'"'s blood-brain barrier; and

    thereby enabling delivery of the at least one effective amount of the therapeutic compound comprising an insulin to the patient'"'"'s central nervous system (CNS) to treat the patient for PTSD during the patient'"'"'s witnessing of the event.

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