A trial enrolled nine individuals with PTSD and used a next-generation miniaturized system to deliver vagus nerve stimulation ...

The degree to which unwanted traumatic memories force their way into a person’s consciousness—and the intensity with which ...

Optimal treatment for patients with co-occurring PTSD and fibromyalgia requires coordinated, multidisciplinary care.

Early treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder for younger veterans may decrease the risk of developing insulin-dependent diabetes and lower the odds of an earlier death, a recently released study ...

A recent study suggests vagus nerve stimulation paired with exposure therapy may produce lasting relief for people with ...

In previous studies, Yale researchers found that in people diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the amygdala—an area of the brain associated with emotional processing—reacts less ...

An innovative study, published in Nature Communications, reveals the mechanism behind two seemingly contradictory effects of fear memories: the inability to forget yet the difficulty to recall. Led by ...

The University of North Carolina is tapping Google's Verily Life Sciences and MindStrong (the company for which Dr. Thomas Insell recently left Verily) for an ambitious 19-site study of post-traumatic ...

PTSD is a relatively common mental health disorder that often requires multi-modal treatment. One adjunctive treatment is ...

A rare approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of a study of cannabis, which will focus on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, could one day provide a boost to the cannabis ...