PTSD Diagnosed with Magnetism
Post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, isn’t a disorder that can be diagnosed with x-rays or blood tests. Usually, diagnosis is made by listening to the symptoms, doing a medical history and learning about the patient’s past. While doctors are managing to diagnose some patients in this manner, research is ongoing to find more definitive ways to clearly identify people who have PTSD, to keep some from slipping through the cracks. Along this line, researchers have been using magnetoencephalography (MEG), a non-invasive measurement of magnetic fields in the brain, to see if they could identify patients with PTSD and the results are promising. According to a study just published in the Journal of Neural Engineering , researchers who studied veterans of World War II, Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq were able to correctly identify, …

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