Biology of PTSD

Psychobiological research provides clues to the causes of PTSD, how PTSD is related to other physical problems such as traumatic brain injury, and insight to potential PTSD medications.

• Pharmacological Treatment of Acute Stress Reactions: A Neurobiological Systems Approach
  Encourages prescribers to consider the neurocircuitry underlying the human stress response when treating acute traumatic stress reactions.
• Traumatic Brain Injury
  This PTSD 101 course outlines the neuropsychiatry of TBI. Reviews the types of TBI, common functioning deficits, the relationship between PTSD and TBI, assessment and treatment.
• Psychopharmacology of PTSD
  A video for mental health care providers explaining how medications target symptoms of PTSD. Reviews mechanisms and efficacy of various pharmacological treatments.
• PTSD, Allostatic Load and Medical Illness
  This video is to further develop practitioners' clinical knowledge and skills concerning psychobiological models of chronic stress and PTSD that are risk factors for medical illness.