Research
Jan 27, 2010
MEG spots post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a difficult condition to diagnose definitively from clinical evidence alone. In the absence of a reliable biomarker, patients' descriptions of flashbacks, worry and emotional numbness are all doctors have to work with. Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School (Minneapolis, MN) have now shown how magnetoencephalography (MEG) could identify genuine PTSD sufferers with high confidence and without the need for patients to relive painful past memories (J. Neural Eng. 7 016011).
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