Post-traumatic stress is estimated to afflict more than 300,000 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, but until now, it's been labeled a "soft disorder" -- one without an objective biological path to diagnosis.
That may have changed this week, after researchers at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis VA Medical Center announced they'd found a distinct pattern of brain activity among PTSD sufferers.
The team used magnetoencephalography (MEG), a brain imaging method that measures how the brain processes information.
They scanned the brains of 74 U.S. veterans with PTSD, and 250 civilians without the disorder, and say that by spotting specific brain biomarkers, they managed to accurately diagnose PTSD sufferers with 90 percent accuracy....>>>>>
This might be promising but as to the last four decades plus, of advocacy and activism on, I'll hold praise or cheers. Like I do on most of the first reports on seeming miracle cures or advancements, until this is studied much further and with real positive data!
The Reason for Promising is this, as they state, may be a great advancement in understanding how the brain not only processes and develops but how living experiences that go completely counter to what the beginning of life has taught, except for those children abused either mentally or physically who are developing with two different messages of what life is, and the changes and strength of effect us as human beings.
Not a scientist nor in the medical professions I've often thought that this was what was going on in the brain as we are taught from childhood and witness that around us as to what living and life is, then to experience the total opposite of those teachings, especially in war but also for those who live through an extremely traumatic individual life experience, is the reason some suffer more then other. Trauma of life effects everyone who experience it, but some suffer from it's effects more then others, that has to be found in each individuals mind process and the chemical etc. makeup that each individuals brain has developed with.
Also not a medical writer!
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