A new study reveals that astrocyte-derived GABA, not neuronal activity, plays a central role in PTSD by impairing the brain’s ability to extinguish traumatic memories.

Did you know that patients with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often struggle to forget traumatic memories, even long ...

Excess GABA from your brain’s support cells relates to PTSD symptoms. A new drug shows promise where current treatments fail.

What if your senses hold a missing key in trauma healing? Sensory systems quietly fuel trauma symptoms, and sensory-based ...

Excessive levels of GABA released by astrocytes impair the brain's ability to extinguish fear responses in PTSD, but a newly ...

A new study reveals that astrocytes – support cells in the brain – drive PTSD by releasing excess GABA in the prefrontal ...

Patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often struggle to forget traumatic memories, even long after the danger has passed. This failure to extinguish fear memories has long puzzled ...

For military veterans, many of the deepest wounds of war are invisible: Traumatic brain injuries resulting from head trauma ...

For many, the body and brain remain locked in survival mode, long after the traumatic event has passed. This is the painful reality of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a condition marked by the ...

In this first-of-its-kind study, researchers zoomed in on PTSD at the single-cell level to better understand how it affects the brain. Since there are no drugs made specifically for PTSD, doctors ...