Lie detector equipment being put to use on PTSD

While it is a fact a veteran with PTSD has physical signs of it with racing heartbeats, nervous twitches and sweating along with facial reactions, this may help, but depending on what questions are asked the answers might not meet what their bodies are saying.

Researchers Look for Veterans to Help with PTSD Study

Posted Mon, Aug 08, 2011

By Bobbie O'Brien
TAMPA (2011-8-8) -
A team of researchers in Tampa and Cambridge is using current technology to measures physiological responses linked to PTSD symptoms in the hopes of developing a test for PTSD that any clinician can use.

An increasing number of combat veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are in danger of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Diagnosing the anxiety disorder is difficult and has led to denied claims and delayed help for some veterans.

Andrea Webb, a psychophysiologist with Draper Laboratories, studies physiological responses such as heart rate and perspiration that are linked to ones mental state. She specialized in lie detectors but is expanding to use the current technology to help diagnose PTSD.
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Researchers Look for Veterans to Help with PTSD Study