CAT scans. Recent combat veterans who are diagnosed with post
traumatic stress disorder have significantly smaller volume in an area
of the brain critical for regulating fear and anxiety responses.
This is sad yet amazing. It is so cool that they can get and measure someone's brain who had been hardened by war. They were able to discover many important things and objects about veterans' brains. It is quite sad that the people who suffered abuse have a higher chance to get PTSD.
As Jahan said, I believe that it sad that the veterans have a high chance to get PTSD. What is interesting is that how their brain function. It is amazing that their fear response and anxiety levels are lower. But the bad part about that is that they are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. What I would like to know is how well can the veteran's brain function.
This is going to be a really short comment, because they forgot to explain one little thing. What IS PTSD? How do you know someone has it? I did not understand this AT ALL. If any body sees this comment, could you please answer my questions? Pretty please?
It is sad that veterans' brain are affected by war, but this is something I have known for years. What I think is interesting is how some veterans' already had PTSD, while others were still in the process of developing it. I also agree with Jacob. It would help to know how a veteran's brain functions.
Just to clear things up, these people should have mentioned what PTSD is. I was trying to find some kind of bubble with the meaning in it but suddenly I saw that it stood for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the related links section. What was weird though was that it seemed as if they were such a big deal about this discovery, but it seems logical that if someone was robbed, abused, or something else bad happened to them that they would be scared. I'm assuming that PTSD makes get nervous or stressed constantly because of your specific trauma. I agree with Jahan and Jacob when they say that it is sad that the veterans have PTSD because they went into war. I agree with Emilynne. The people in the article assumed that we knew what everything meant when we didn't. Were we all to supposed to know what an amygdala or what PTSD stand right off the top of our heads? No! I just think that these people should have explained things a bit better.
Overall, I thought that this was interesting, but I felt as if I already knew this.
When I looked at the article title it didn't really make sense. I agree with Izzy. What is PTSD. It is very interesting though. People keep on coming up with new and crazy inventions that wow me. It's funny how smart people can be; also they need to have very broad imaginations to think of such things. No matter what, you still have to have all this new high-tech technology which also wows me. Through the past years technology has grown so much that I think next year robots will come into play, but too much new technology then it well start getting used for bad purposes. I wonder out of all things, these scientists thought of fear. Fear, I guess can be an interesting topic and can go on for a long time which I did not know about either. I wonder if they could do it on younger people but I guess veterans work the best because they are older and probably have the most things to remember which makes sense. I hope I don't lose my memory when I'm older, though. I still think that this was a very interesting article on something quite extraordinary.
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This is sad yet amazing. It is so cool that they can get and measure someone's brain who had been hardened by war. They were able to discover many important things and objects about veterans' brains. It is quite sad that the people who suffered abuse have a higher chance to get PTSD.
As Jahan said, I believe that it sad that the veterans have a high chance to get PTSD. What is interesting is that how their brain function. It is amazing that their fear response and anxiety levels are lower. But the bad part about that is that they are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. What I would like to know is how well can the veteran's brain function.
This is going to be a really short comment, because they forgot to explain one little thing. What IS PTSD? How do you know someone has it? I did not understand this AT ALL. If any body sees this comment, could you please answer my questions? Pretty please?
It is sad that veterans' brain are affected by war, but this is something I have known for years. What I think is interesting is how some veterans' already had PTSD, while others were still in the process of developing it. I also agree with Jacob. It would help to know how a veteran's brain functions.
Just to clear things up, these people should have mentioned what PTSD is. I was trying to find some kind of bubble with the meaning in it but suddenly I saw that it stood for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the related links section. What was weird though was that it seemed as if they were such a big deal about this discovery, but it seems logical that if someone was robbed, abused, or something else bad happened to them that they would be scared. I'm assuming that PTSD makes get nervous or stressed constantly because of your specific trauma. I agree with Jahan and Jacob when they say that it is sad that the veterans have PTSD because they went into war. I agree with Emilynne. The people in the article assumed that we knew what everything meant when we didn't. Were we all to supposed to know what an amygdala or what PTSD stand right off the top of our heads? No! I just think that these people should have explained things a bit better.
Overall, I thought that this was interesting, but I felt as if I already knew this.
When I looked at the article title it didn't really make sense. I agree with Izzy. What is PTSD. It is very interesting though. People keep on coming up with new and crazy inventions that wow me. It's funny how smart people can be; also they need to have very broad imaginations to think of such things. No matter what, you still have to have all this new high-tech technology which also wows me. Through the past years technology has grown so much that I think next year robots will come into play, but too much new technology then it well start getting used for bad purposes. I wonder out of all things, these scientists thought of fear. Fear, I guess can be an interesting topic and can go on for a long time which I did not know about either. I wonder if they could do it on younger people but I guess veterans work the best because they are older and probably have the most things to remember which makes sense. I hope I don't lose my memory when I'm older, though. I still think that this was a very interesting article on something quite extraordinary.
Also, what does PTSD stand for. Something that has to do with memory loss?
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