![Repeated Ketamine Infusions Over 2 Weeks Significantly Reduced Chronic PTSD Symptoms Repeated Ketamine Infusions Over 2 Weeks Significantly Reduced Chronic PTSD Symptoms](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/woman-veteran-ptsd_0.jpg?itok=w2BnI0xw)
A new window may be opening on the treatment of chronic PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Results of a newly published clinical trial suggest that repeated infusions of the drug ketamine over a…
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![Researchers Discover a Rhythm in the Cortex Involved in Causing Dissociation Researchers Discover a Rhythm in the Cortex Involved in Causing Dissociation](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/blue-science-pattern-1440.jpg?itok=RuyzLNLM)
Researchers have identified cells and circuits in a specific area of the brain that are involved in generating the subjective state called dissociation.
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![Unconscious Exposure to a Feared Stimulus Can Reduce Fear, Study Shows Unconscious Exposure to a Feared Stimulus Can Reduce Fear, Study Shows](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/depressed-woman-on-couch-looking-out-window.jpg?itok=xoJngaDd)
For many years, exposure therapy has been a first-line behavioral treatment for people diagnosed with anxiety disorders such as social phobia and PTSD that involve a paralyzing or disabling fear.
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![Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Reduced Fear and Anxiety in a Preliminary Trial Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Reduced Fear and Anxiety in a Preliminary Trial](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/womanagainstwindowunemotional-1440_1.jpg?itok=0wVzGusB)
Researchers have reported success in a preliminary effort to use non-invasive brain stimulation to reduce fear and anxiety. The placebo-controlled trial involved 19 healthy human subjects who were…
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![Identifying Brain Connectivity Changes in Combat Veterans with PTSD](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/abstractfuturisticlinesdotsgridintertwiningweb-1440.jpg?itok=hoHU2kwY)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which affects about 7% of American adults, is much more common in combat veterans. Like others with PTSD, combat vets with the disorder experience intrusive…
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