Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects approximately 10% of road accident participants and as many as half of people who have experienced war, and victims of rape or violence.

When relationship experiences trigger emotional overreactions in us, we can learn to recover more quickly to prevent ...

Anthropologists, social scientists and veterans are analyze the relationship between the hormones cortisol and testosterone and PTSD in a non-industrialized society. According to the World Health ...

During one study, physicians at Walter Reed plan to give the psychedelic drug MDMA to up to 450 active-duty soldiers with ...

PTSD's effects on hormone levels may vary by culture, as shown in a study of Turkana warriors. Unlike Western populations, Turkana men with PTSD did not exhibit altered cortisol patterns but had ...

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According to the World Health Organization, about 3.9% of the world's population has had post-traumatic stress disorder at some point during their lives. That number is higher in the United States ...