Two-time NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee, Olivier Berton, Ph.D., assistant professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a team of researchers have shown that the...
PTSD
Did you know that almost half of all Americans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are receiving minimally adequate treatment?
New Foundation-supported research to improve the diagnosis of PTSD includes:
- Understanding that patients with major depression may be suffering from PTSD
- Educating clinicians about how children may have different responses to traumatic events compared to adults
- Monitoring rape victims and accident victims for PTSD since many individuals in both groups will develop PTSD
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May 01, 2012
Michelle Obama
January 27, 2012
Michelle Obama and Jill Biden announced this initiative as part of their Joining Forces Campaign to focus on issues that affect veterans and their families. Obama said that while an estimated 300,000 veterans suffer PTSD or major depression, fewer than half got treatment in the past year. With this...
TAGS: Basic Research, Brain Matters, PTSD, Discoveries
Allen Zeitlin
November 09, 2011
Allen Zeitlin is a third year med student at Michigan State University in Grand Rapids, with interests in psychiatry and neurology. This has a lot to do with the time he spent in the Middle East, serving in the military. “I remember when I joined the Air Force,” Allen recalls, “it was before 9/11. I was 18 years old and naive and...
TAGS: PTSD, Stories of Recovery
Michael S. Fanselow, Ph.D.
November 09, 2011
Michael S. Fanselow, Ph.D., a 2011 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grantee and professor of psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles, points out that we experience fear, just as we experience pain, for important reasons – reasons that relate to our ability to survive as individuals and, by...
TAGS: Basic Research, PTSD, Discoveries
Alexander Neumeister, M.D.
November 09, 2011
A team led by NARSAD Independent Investigator Grantee Alexander Neumeister, M.D., has provided evidence of dysfunction in a key brain system linked with the occurrence of PTSD. This new discovery holds promise as a target area for the development of medication specific to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). “Currently,” states Dr....
TAGS: Next Generation Therapies, PTSD, Discoveries
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