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.