New research among World Trade Center (WTC) responders with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has uncovered ...

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Recovery from PTSD comes with key changes in the brain’s memory system, a new study finds. These differences were found in the brains of 19 people who developed post-traumatic stress disorder after ...

Foreword / by Charles E. Rosenberg -- Preface -- A disorder through time -- PTSD emerges -- The psychic wounds of combat -- Diagnosing PTSD -- The return of the repressed -- PTSD becomes ubiquitous -- ...

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 ...

Among patients with CAD, PTSD is associated with both incident and recurrent heart failure hospitalizations. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is linked with incident and recurrent heart failure ...

In his book, The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk shared the story of a man who, every July 5th at 6:30 a.m., would reenact a traumatic event. 1 When van der Kolk met him, the man explained ...

In the 2005 movie The Jacket, a troubled Gulf War vet named Jack Starks gets framed for a murder he didn’t commit. He’s sent to a psychiatric institution in lieu of prison due to his Post-Traumatic ...