GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY ATLANTA—The pandemic has taken a substantial toll on mental health — and for a subset of Americans, COVID has emerged as a source of traumatic stress that may predict post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, according to a new study led by Georgia State University. The research shows that the association between COVID traumatic stress...
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Team Shows How Memories Are Stored in The Brain, With Potential Impact on Conditions Like PTSD
Fish that glow; a tailor-made microscope; a new way to catalog science. After six years, researchers produce the first snapshots of memory in a living animal. What physical changes occur in the brain when a memory is made? A team of researchers at the University of Southern California has, for the first time, answered this...
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Study shows how memories are stored in the brain, with potential impact on conditions like PTSD
by University of Southern California Specialized software developed by the research team creates a map of the specific location and size of synapses from the three-dimensional microscope image. Comparing synapse maps from before and after learning, we can identify synapses that were either created or eliminated in the process. The red line in the right-hand...
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75% of sexual assault survivors have PTSD one month later
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE/UW MEDICINE Researchers want sexual assault survivors to know that it’s normal to feel awful right after the assault, but that many will feel better within three months. In a meta-analysis published in Trauma, Violence & Abuse, researchers found that 81% of sexual assault survivors had significant symptoms of post-traumatic...
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Researchers identify potential subtype of PTSD
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Boston)–A major obstacle in understanding and treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is its clinical and neurobiological heterogeneity. In order to better treat the condition and address this barrier, the field has become increasingly interested in identifying subtypes of PTSD based on dysfunction in neural networks alongside cognitive impairments that may...
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Study finds PTSD interacts with klotho gene, may cause premature aging in the brain
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Boston)–Genetics and the environment (including psychiatric stress) may contribute to the pace of cellular aging, causing some individuals to have a biological age that exceeds their chronological age. Researchers from the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) now have found that...
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PTSD and alcohol abuse go hand-in-hand, but males and females exhibit symptoms differently
by The Scripps Research Institute Through intricate experiments designed to account for sex-specific differences, scientists at Scripps Research have collaborated to zero in on certain changes in the brain that may be responsible for driving alcohol abuse among people with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. In studies with rodents, researchers found that males and females exhibit their own distinct symptoms and brain...
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People with PTSD are facing hugely increased risk of dementia
As society ages, we have more and more people living with dementia. It is an incurable disease and we are sort of accepting it as a sad part of life. Your lifestyle, genes and some other factors influence the risk of dementia. And the goal for you is to reduce that risk. Now scientists at...
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Is what I see, what I imagine? Study finds neural overlap between vision and imagination
by Catherine Bridges, Medical University of South Carolina An ibis as “seen” by a machine, 2015. This processed image, which is based on a photograph by Dr. Zachi Evenor, is courtesy of software engineer Guenther Noack, 2015, and is reproduced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). Credit: Dr. Guenther Noack, 2015, reproduced from Wikimedia Commons...
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Study shows cannabis temporarily relieves PTSD symptoms
PULLMAN, Wash. – People suffering from post-traumatic distress disorder report that cannabis reduces the severity of their symptoms by more than half, at least in the short term, according to a recent study led by Carrie Cuttler, a Washington State University assistant professor of psychology. Cuttler and her colleagues analyzed data of more than 400...