Post-traumatic stress disorder articles from across Nature Portfolio

This study from Wei-Guang Li, Tian-Le Xu and colleagues shows that neuropeptide Y released by specific hippocampal inhibitory neurons can switch fear memories into extinction memories by acting on two distinct receptor-defined neuron populations.

In this study, Agathos et al. examine alterations in thalamocortical network connectivity during cognitive restructuring of negative cognitions in individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder, using ultrahigh-field 7-T functional MRI and dynamic causal modeling.

Trauma leaves traces in the brain. A study of alterations in gene regulation in the brains of people with post-traumatic stress disorder offers insights into its biology.

Physician Sue Sisley battles to study cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms for pain, addiction and PTSD.

Two brain regions work together when mice learn to override the instinct to run and hide from a potential threat.

In mice, stress altered the way that the brain formed memories, resulting in an unnecessary fear response.