“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific America ...

Researchers now believe anxiety disorders and PTSD are whole brain conditions. Skip to main content Mobile Navigation Psychology Today Find Counselling Find Counselling Counsellors Counsellors x ...

A new study, however, identified a brain circuit that could be ripe for PTSD treatment. Neuroscientists in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, North Carolina, California, and Illinois found that those ...

protects against PTSD. They used their wiring diagram, the human connectome, to map where brain damage had occurred and where each lesion connected. From there, they compared the data to 180 ...

To understand why this may be, the researchers examined each patient's brain circuitry data, which included mapping of the exact location and neurological effects of damage. In doing so, they deduced ...

Dr. Liberzon added, "Understanding brain circuits linked to the progression of PTSD from an acute to a chronic condition is critical for understanding its pathophysiology, and eventually for the ...