Recovery from PTSD comes with key changes in the brain’s memory system, a new study finds. These differences were found in the brains of 19 people who developed post-traumatic stress disorder after the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris — and then recovered over the following years.
The results, published January 8 in Science Advances, point to the complexity of PTSD, but also to ways that brains can reshape themselves as they recover.
With memory tasks and brain scans, the study provides a cohesive look at the recovering brain, says cognitive neuroscientist Vishnu Murty of the University of Oregon in Eugene. “It’s pulled together a lot of pieces that were
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