Fear reacquisition and symptoms of combat-related PTSD: Specificity and preliminary examination of the influence of the 5-HT3A receptor gene

Personalized repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (prtms®) for post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) in military combat veterans

“…PTSD is characterized by reliving the event via intrusive memories, flashbacks and nightmares, avoidance reminders of the trauma and the resultant anxious symptomatology disrupting the lives of patients and of their loved ones [ 12 ]. To date, most psychophysiology [ [13] , [14] , [15] ] and functional brain imaging PTSD studies [ 16 , 17 ] have focused on conditioned fear [ 18 , 19 ] underlying enhanced- or unsuccessfully extinguished responses to trauma-related cues [ 20 ]. However, our recent research [ 21 ] also links PTSD with aberrations in contextual processing [ 22 , 23 ].…”