July 31, 2024 by University of Oxford Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainFour internet-based therapies developed by experts at the University of Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and Department of Psychiatry are proving helpful for patients with social anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorders and for children with anxiety disorders. Urgent treatment solutions are needed for children,...
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Mimicking brain plasticity in children to control post-traumatic stress
by University of Montreal PNN components and metalloproteases are expressed by different cell types in mouse PFC. a Single cell RNA-sequencing (DropSeq) of PFC cells of P40-43 wild-type mice (n = 8 mice). t-SNE visualization of identified cell types; cluster 9 refers to PV+ cells. b–d Expression localization of critical components of PNN structure and remodeling, including lecticans (b...
Research team finds brain marker that indicates vulnerability to developing post-traumatic stress disorder
by Taylor McNeil, Tufts University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Understanding one’s susceptibility to developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is important. If you knew you were at risk, for example, you might steer clear of jobs that carry more likelihood of high stress and potential trauma or seek treatment as soon as you experienced a potentially...
New therapy significantly reduces headache disability, post-traumatic stress following brain injury, study finds
by University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The first therapy to be developed specifically for post-traumatic headache significantly reduced related disability in veterans following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). It also reduced co-occurring symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) comparably to a gold-standard PTSD treatment. Moreover, the innovative treatment,...
Disaster news on TV and social media can trigger post-traumatic stress in kids thousands of miles away
by Jonathan S. Comer, Anthony Steven Dick, The Conversation When disasters strike, the flood of images on TV and social media can have a powerful psychological impact on children—whether those children are physically in the line of danger or watching from thousands of miles away. Our latest research uses brain scans to show how simply watching...
‘Chemobrain’: Post-traumatic stress affects cognitive function in cancer patients
Subtle cognitive dysfunction and decline in breast cancer patients was largely independent of chemotherapy but associated with cancer-related post-traumatic stress in a German multisite study. Many breast cancer patients report problems of cognitive functioning, and some are considerably burdened by them. These symptoms have mainly been attributed to neurotoxic effects of chemotherapy, as reflected in...