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Sex-dependent risk factors for PTSD: a prospective structural MRI study
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After a traumatic event, women are more likely to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Research has been conducted on what might be causing this higher rate of diagnoses; for instance, perhaps women had more cumulative trauma in their lives than the men in question. But scientists say that even taking prior childhood trauma into account, women are still diagnosed at a higher rate than men.
Alyssa Roeckner is a neuroscience PhD candidate at Emory University, she’s in the lab of Dr. Jennifer Stevens, assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University. They are two of the authors of a recent study in NPP titled “Sex-dependent risk factors for PTSD: a prospective structural MRI study.”
Read the full study here: Sex-dependent risk factors for PTSD: a prospective structural MRI study | Neuropsychopharmacology (nature.com)
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