Fear Circuitry' In Brains Always On High Alert

This is why you have to take care of the whole you! Your mind, your spirit and your body. You have to reteach it to calm down again.

PTSD Combat Veterans' 'Fear Circuitry' In Brains Always On High Alert
In order to better diagnose PTSD, researchers looked for the part of the brain associated with the disorder and found them.
BY ANTHONY RIVAS
MAY 19, 2013

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has long been known to have lasting behavioral and emotional effects on soldiers long after they leave the combat zone. But what happens to physically to the brain of a combat veterans with PTSD is gaining more attention, including that of researchers at New York University's School of Medicine.

Their research, which was presented today at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatry Association in San Francisco, showed that PTSD physically manifests within certain regions of the brain, even when combat veterans aren't engaged in cognitive or emotional tasks and face no external threats.

"It is critical to have an objective test to confirm PTSD diagnosis as self-reports can be unreliable," said co-author Dr. Charles Marmar, chair of NYU Langone's Department of Psychiatry.
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