7-Tesla MRI machine uncovers new insights into PTSD

Powerful brain imaging has helped uncover why people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who engage in negative self-talk may be struggling with the first line of treatment. The discovery, published in Nature Mental Health, sheds new light as to why underlying brain mechanisms mean some therapies potentially work for some people and not others, and could guide the development of more targeted treatments for PTSD.