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    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. People with PTSD may experience flashbacks, anger issues, and difficulty controlling their emotions. The amygdala, hippocampus, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex areas of the brain are affected in PTSD patients. These areas impact emotional regulation and the formation and retrieval of memories. Daily life with PTSD can be difficult due to symptoms like flashbacks and insomnia. Treatments include antidepressants, cognitive therapy, exposure therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy.

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    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. People with PTSD may experience flashbacks, anger issues, and difficulty controlling their emotions. The amygdala, hippocampus, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex areas of the brain are affected in PTSD patients. These areas impact emotional regulation and the formation and retrieval of memories. Daily life with PTSD can be difficult due to symptoms like flashbacks and insomnia. Treatments include antidepressants, cognitive therapy, exposure therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy.

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    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. People with PTSD may experience flashbacks, anger issues, and difficulty controlling their emotions. The amygdala, hippocampus, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex areas of the brain are affected in PTSD patients. These areas impact emotional regulation and the formation and retrieval of memories. Daily life with PTSD can be difficult due to symptoms like flashbacks and insomnia. Treatments include antidepressants, cognitive therapy, exposure therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy.

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    Vivian Song

    Sandy Spring Friends School


    16932 Norwood Rd.Silver Spring. MD 20860

    Post -traumatic stress


    disorder(PTSD)
    Brochure
    INTRODUCTION
    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a
    mental health condition that people who had
    been through a terrifying, dangerous events,
    especially in the early life experience. Those
    people would always get flashback, easy to get
    mad or angry. Even some of them cannot
    control themselves.
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    http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseasesconditions/posttraumaticstressdisorder/indepth/CON200
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    http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/posttraumaticstressdisorderptsd/index.shtml

    CAUSES
    Actually, the doctors did not sure why people will get PTSD, or what is the main
    reason that causes people to get PTSD. But with the most of mental problems, there are
    couple clue we can be follow with :

    Heredity mental problems or health risks. People will got inherited from it. Such as

    anxiety and depression.


    Early life experience or big events that gone through, especially in the early
    childhood.
    Inherited from your own personality, especially from the temperaments.
    The way that brain regular chemicals and hormones work.
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    AREAS OF THE BRAIN AFFECTED & THE FUNCTION WITH

    DISORDER
    There are couple area that play an important

    role in typical PTSD which are The amygdala, the


    hippocampus, and the ventromedial prefrontal
    cortex. All of those area impact how does people

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    react about certain things.

    VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX is control the negative emotional, such as


    anger, afraid or fear. When people got PTSD, the ability of regulate the emotional will
    decreasing, and that is 3the why people who got PTSD are very easy to be scared and
    mad.
    HIPPOCAMPUS is the most easy one to get hurt. The hippocampus s volume of
    people who got PTSD would decreasing by the time. The hippocampus would help
    people to keep the memories and help to separate the new memories and the old
    memories. The people who got PTSD will always mess up the old memories and new
    memories because the volume is keep decreasing.
    AMYGDALA is the area of helping people to control the motion, and the fear
    reaction. Amygdala will got connect with the terrible experience. They will react fear and
    scared when they saw the picture or talking that relate to the memories.

    HOW

    THOSE FUNCTION NORMALLY WORK ?

    There are two different amygdala. Amygdala have the ability to let people feel

    the emotions that perceive in other people. Amygdala will also help us to reaction the
    big events and to help us to survival.

    http://brainblogger.com/2015/01/24/how-does-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-change-the-brain/

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    The main major of hippocampus is to keep the long-term memories. The

    organ also play an important role in spatial navigation. The major of hippocampus are
    memory,
    spatial navigation and spatial memory and behavioral inhibition.
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    The ventromedial prefrontal cortex will help people to processing the

    dangerous and fear, also the inhibition of emotional.


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    DAILY LIFE AND LIFE EXPECTANCY WITH PTSD

    The people who have PTSD always live in scared and mad. They have the
    flashback and the horrible memories all the time. They cannot sleep well, even cannot
    have a normal job like others. At the first they all afraid they will be the only one have
    this problems, they expect to be like a normal person to sleep and live without all the
    flashback and horrible memories. The hippocampus will be grown back
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    TREATMENTS

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    http://www.news-medical.net/health/Hippocampus-Functions.aspx

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventromedial_prefrontal_cortex

    https://maketheconnection.net/stories/story.aspx?story_id=175

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    There were medical treatments and Psychotherapy treatments. Most of the

    medical
    treating
    have
    antidepressants which may help to control the worry, angry, mad
    for the inside of people. The psychotherapy including to talk with professional doctor to
    help get away from the mental health illness. Also, there were different kind of
    psychotherapy help.
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    Cognitive therapy.
    This type of talk therapy helps you recognize the ways of

    thinking

    Exposure therapy.
    A behavior therapy to safety face to help you copy effectitvely

    Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)


    People who got PTSD

    can try to engage in mild physical activity or exercise to help reduce stress, set a
    goal for yourselves and also can talk with the friends or person that you trust to.

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