Patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often struggle to forget traumatic memories, even long after the danger ...

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

Researchers discovered that PTSD may be driven by excess GABA from astrocytes, not neurons. This chemical imbalance disrupts ...

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.

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

Effects of contact with a dog on prefrontal brain activity: A controlled trial. PLOS ONE, 2022; 17 (10): e0274833 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274833 ...

The prefrontal cortex is a small portion of brain tissue located at the front of the frontal lobe in human brains, just behind and above our eyes. It’s responsible for what we call the executive ...

During evolution, the prefrontal region grew in size relative to the rest of the cortex. It reached its largest extent in the human brain, where it constitutes 30% of the total cortical area. This ...