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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment typically involves therapy and medication. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, exposure therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) are common types of therapy used to treat PTSD. Antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications may also be prescribed to help manage symptoms.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment

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  1. NEURONSOFPTSD PATIENTSREACT MentalHealth

  2. Itisnosecretthatsomepeoplearegenetically pronetoPTSD.Someindividualsarepoor-tolerant of stress responses. Postmortem studies show thattheneuronsofpeoplewithPTSDare sensitivetoglucocorticosteroids.Nowresearchers have found a new way to confirm this hypothesis bycreatingbraincellsofPTSDpatientsfromtheir stem cells. This also helped them identify genes associatedwithglucocorticosteroidsensitivity. Thisstudyalsoopensthedoorforfuturestudies andposttraumaticstressdisordertreatment.

  3. Itisnosecretthattwopeoplereactdifferentlytostress. Therefore,twoindividualsmaygothroughsimilarkindsof circumstances,butonemaydevelopPTSD,andanother not. Hence, it is also relatively easy to guess that these individualdifferenceshavemuchtodowithgenetics. However,whatischallengingistounderstandwhat geneticdifferencespredisposeonetoPTSDandmake anotherresilient.

  4. In some individuals, high-stress hormone levels do not causementalhealthissueslikePTSD.However,studies frompostmortembrainsshowthatinthoselivingwithPTSD, braincellsorneuronsaremoresensitivetocertaintypesof stresshormoneslikecortisolorglucocorticoids.This hypersensitivity to these hormones makes some people morelikelytodevelopsignsofPTSD. However,therearesomelimitationsofstudiesdoneona deadbrain.Therefore,confirmingthehypothesisonliving braincellsisessential.However,therearenumerous challengesinstudyinglivebraincells.Afterall,onecannot readilyandsafelyextractcellsfromthebrainsofthose livingwithPTSD.

  5. Duringtheexperiments,researchersfoundthatthesebraincells derivedfromstemcellsofthoselivingwithPTSDweremore sensitive to glucocorticosteroids. They could also find that this occurredduetothepresenceofspecificgenescontributingto PTSD-dependentglucocorticoidresponse. Thisstudyprovidednewinsights.Itdemonstratedthatstemcellsof PTSDpatientscouldbeusedtounderstandthemolecular mechanismofPTSD,stressresponses,andconductdrugscreening tofindeffectivetreatments.

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