The Texas A&M team's experimental model represents a critical platform for developing new medicines for military personnel with traumatic brain injuries.
By examining neurons in the brain, Texas A&M researcher Stephen Maren reveals new insights into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that may help to reduce the disorder's effects.
Dr. Stephen Maren, University Distinguished Professor of psychological and brain sciences and Claude H. Everett, Jr. ’47 Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. A study conducted at Texas A&M University has identified a new area in the brain involved in inhibiting fear, a discovery that holds potential…
Stephen Maren. By Haley Venglar, Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts Some illnesses are easy to see with the naked eye. Others, like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are invisible and insidious, difficult to explain and even harder to understand. That’s why today, June 27, is National PTSD Awareness…
It is important to understand how disasters affect mental health because effective preparedness for and response to disaster requires dedicated resources for mental trauma.
Steve Maren and his Emotion and Memory Systems Laboratory (EMSL) have made a breakthrough discovery that could help clinicians better treat disorders like PTSD. (College of Liberal Arts) By Heather Rodriguez, Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts Steve Maren, the Claude H. Everett Jr. ’47 Chair of Liberal Arts…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center When hundreds of thousands of American troops deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1990 and 1991 in what is now called the First Gulf War, they were exposed to a variety of chemicals. These chemicals—especially…
Engineering professor Farzan Sasangohar watches as Vice President Mike Pence signs the helmet of a veteran cyclist. Sasangohar recently showed Hero Trak, a wearable device he helped develop to detect PTSD symptoms, to Pence. By Aubrey Bloom, Texas A&M University College of Engineering When he began working on an…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Firefighters are exposed to a range of potentially traumatic stressors in their jobs, and many cope perfectly fine. However, a not-insignificant percentage of them develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Texas A&M researchers are trying to figure out why—and what…