In people with traumatic brain injury, administering the psychedelic drug ibogaine seems to slow down brainwaves, which may ...

Moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) increased malignant brain tumor risk in a large retrospective study of ...

Trauma significantly alters brain structure, leading to PTSD symptoms like hypervigilance, intrusive thoughts, and memory issues, but targeted therapies can help survivors heal and regain control ...

Reasons to be Cheerful reports that veterans are turning to psychedelics like ibogaine for PTSD treatment, showing promising ...

Post-traumatic stress influences the brain even in the absence of symptoms: A systematic, quantitative meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015; 56: 207 ...

The researchers followed over 400 such TBI patients, assessing them for PTSD at 3 and 6 months after their brain injury. At 3 months, 77 participants, or 18 percent, had likely PTSD; at 6 months ...

Study participants reported their PTSD symptoms with the self-report tool again at three months and six months after they begin the study. Harnett and his colleagues are trying to find a “signature of ...

New research indicates that the traumatic memories of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder are represented very differently in the brain than “regular” sad autobiographical memories. A ...

The new study involved 1,155 patients with mild traumatic brain injuries and 230 with non-head injuries from 11 hospitals with trauma centers across the United States, between 2014 and 2016.

They conducted brain scans with research participants that look at brain structure and function and assess PTSD symptoms with a self-report measure called the Post-traumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS).