Post-traumatic stress disorder is usually framed as a psychological wound, but a growing body of evidence suggests it can also speed up how quickly the brain itself appears to age. Instead of simply ...

Research in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging among World Trade Center (WTC) responders with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has uncovered measurable physical ...

Astrocytes, once thought to be mere brain “support cells,” are now revealed to be key players in fear memory. Researchers found they actively help form, recall, and weaken fear responses by ...

Imagine a star-shaped cell in the brain, reaching out with long, thin extensions to surround nearby neurons. This cell is called an astrocyte. For ...

A study from the Emory University School of Medicine finds transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a targeted form of ...

Sarah was offered hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or HBOT. According to her case, published in 2024 by an Israeli medical team in Annals of Case Reports, her nightmares stopped during the course of ...

Woodland stated he no longer wants to hide his condition and feels like he is "living a lie" when people assume he is fully recovered. The tumor, which was not fully removed, presses on the part of ...

Wednesday morning, Jo Terry, who lost her husband, Chip Terry, to suicide in 2017, presented a group of city firefighters ...

For example, while NAA level alone may not be a specific way to diagnose PTSD, because it is common in other conditions, NAA level over time may be a way to gauge the progress of care, as could ...