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Brain scans help shed light on the PTSD brain, but they cannot diagnose PTSD

  • Written by Arash Javanbakht, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
Brain scans help shed light on the PTSD brain, but they cannot diagnose PTSDAn example of what a functional MRI scan looks like. Brain activation is averaged across 20 PTSD patients compared to healthy controls in an emotion regulation task.Kunlin Xiong et al/PLOS One, CC BY-SA

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