Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast. Dr. Fang Liu: Peptides, proteins and PTSD
Dr. Liu joins me to discuss how peptides in the brain can help prevent PTSD.
BIO: Dr. Fang Liu, a Senior Scientist & Head of Molecular Neuroscience in CAMH’s Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute; Professor & Co-director of Division of Neuroscience & Clinical Translation, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto
Research led by Dr. Liu points to a groundbreaking discovery about a new potential treatment and prevention for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The research team, led by Dr. Fang Liu, discovered and developed peptides that could prevent recall or encoding of fear memories which suggests that the peptide could treat PTSD symptoms or prevent them entirely. This is a completely new approach to PTSD and for psychiatric disorders in general.
PTSD occurs in some people after experiencing or witnessing traumatic events, such as sexual assault or military combat. Patients can suffer from debilitating flashbacks, nightmares and anxiety which can severely impact quality of life. There are currently no laboratory diagnostic tests for PTSD, and existing treatments have limited efficacy.
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