For all the attention focused on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in recent years, doctors have never had a clear-cut way to be certain a patient has it. But Minnesota scientists now believe they have found a long-sought PTSD fingerprint that confirms the disorder by measuring electromagnetic fields in the brain. The finding, detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Neural Engineering, could help the 300,000 cases of PTSD that are anticipated among the 2 million U.S. troops who have gone to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Post traumatic stress seems to be the bodies way of showing the world the pain that we try to hide when we have been the victim of abuse ,weather that be from childhood terror or sights seen through an occupation, How are the loved ones of these poor tormented people supposed to cope and help them to heal. this does not follow any reason nor rhym as it can rear its ugly head at any time with the smallest of triggers. karen
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