Indian scientists find a way out of PTSD - dnaindia.com/mobile

Scientists from Bangalore-based National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)
have found a treatment for the debilitating
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), opening the avenue for therapeutic strategies to be developed to effectively manage the condition.

PTSD is a condition which affects those who
experience a catastrophe, or those who witness it, and can even occur among friends or family members of those who went through the actual trauma. The condition involves upsetting memories of the event, nightmares, and feeling of intense physical reactions to reminders of the event that leads to pounding of the heart, rapid breathing, nausea, muscle tension and
sweating, and can throw life out of gear for the affected persons. With accidents and
catastrophes, natural or man-made, affecting people regularly, PTSD has become common condition, increasingly seen among combat veterans and soldiers who have experienced bloody wars.

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