Post-traumatic stress disorder is usually framed as a psychological wound, but a growing body of evidence suggests it can ...

Your brain isn’t broken after trauma. It’s running a survival superpower. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Traumatic events actually cause distinct behaviors in the brain. Recalling ...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) isn’t caused by just one faulty switch in the brain; it’s more like a tangled orchestra of genes and cells thrown off-key by trauma. With many genetic players ...

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be ...

December 9, 2009 (Hollywood, Florida) — Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) plus major depressive disorder (MDD) have very different neurobiological profiles than those with PTSD alone ...

The diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has undergone much more than a minor tweaking or superficial facelift in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5. This guidebook to ...

TBI triggers both primary mechanical damage and delayed secondary injuries like inflammation and neurodegeneration. Cognitive effects may include memory loss, mood swings, and impaired social judgment ...

Experiencing a traumatic event often results in an acute stress response and the lingering memory may lead to mental and physical changes that negatively impact one's health. This is often diagnosed ...

A mobile brain scanning system, thought to be the first of its kind, is being developed to measure the effect of blast ...

Retired Army General Peter Chiarelli has endorsed the idea that post-traumatic stress disorder should be renamed post-traumatic stress injury to emphasize its putative organic basis. This proposal has ...

A new study using advanced deep-learning brain age estimation shows that World Trade Center responders with PTSD exhibit signs of accelerated brain aging.