The neurobiology of PTSD
The European Journal of Psychotraumatology is proud
to announce its first special issue focusing on the
neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD).
Since its inception, the journal has published
a number of papers on the neural mechanisms underlying
PTSD, including review articles on the biological
correlates of complex PTSD (Marinova &
Maercker, 2015), restoring large scale brain networks
in PTSD and related disorders (Lanius, Frewen,
Tursich, Jetly, & McKinnon, 2015), and pharmacological
treatments and their neurobiological underpinnings
(Kelmendi et al., 2016).
In addition,
methodological considerations when investigating
epigenetic consequences of early life adversity have
been outlined (Fiori & Turecki, 2016). Finally, an
article calling for clinical, treatment, and neuroscience
research in the area of trauma-related dissociation
and altered states of consciousness was
published as part of a special issue focusing on setting
the research agenda in PTSD and its underlying neurobiology
(Lanius, 2015).
Few open access journals
publish neurobiological research, while we do feel
very strongly about also making this type of research
publicly available without any barriers of paid access.
In: European journal of psychotraumatology, ISSN 2000-8198 | 8 | 1 | May | 1314165
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2017.1314165