Center scientists, Drs. Lei Zhang, He Li, Janis Carlton, and Robert Ursano, recently published an article "The Injury Profile After the 2008 Earthquake in China" in the journal, Injury.Click here for link to article

NEW FINDINGS:
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress Brief summarizes recent Center findings from the first published studies of human PTSD postmortem brain (pfc) and the first mitochondrial studies of PTSD.
The findings suggest promising new pathways for PTSD prevention, early intervention and treatment that have important implications for optimizing the health and mental health of our nation�s military, as well as civilians exposed to traumatic events.

The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress has been named a component center of Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE) for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, as its leading academic arm against traumatic stress. More...

Scientists at the CSTS recently received funding to address the needs of children of injured families and to study some of the fundamental neuroscience mechanisms that may lead to treatments for PTSD and TBI.

Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry edited by Robert Ursano, Carol Fullerton, Lars Weisaeth and Beverley Raphael and published by Cambridge University Press is now available