PTSD can affect the brain by over-utilizing memories of past traumatic experiences and applying them to current or future situations that pose no actual threat. Read more.

PTSD is a testament to the adaptability of the brain and its drive to protect us. It can empower survivors to seek help while creating a compassionate support network around them. Time, resources ...

Did you know that patients with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often struggle to forget traumatic memories, even long ...

Harnett’s research uses magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, to look at brain structure and function. The brains of individuals with PTSD look different than those of individuals without PTSD. Brain ...

The findings may be critical to PTSD treatment. Personal – or autobiographical – memories are at the core of PTSD.

Researchers say racial inequities can produce poverty and trauma that can lead to changes in the brain structure of children. They say these changes can bring on conditions such as post-traumatic ...

After training a machine learning model on the patients’ functional brain images and clinical assessments, the researchers found that the model was able to predict an individual’s PTSD symptom ...

PTSD may affect up to 30% of trauma survivors and military combat veterans, and is associated with disabling comorbidities such as depression, substance use and suicidality, the authors noted.

Currently, the first-choice treatment for PTSD is exposure-based psychotherapy, where therapists help rewire the emotions associated with the traumatic memory in the patient's brain, shifting from ...

To test this hypothesis, the researchers mapped where the brain damage occurred and where each lesion connected. They then compared the data to 180 veterans without brain damage, some of whom had PTSD ...

For military veterans, many of the deepest wounds of war are invisible: Traumatic brain injuries resulting from head trauma ...