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SUBMITTER: Torrisi SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6478703 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Torrisi Sebastiano Alfio SA Leggio Gian Marco GM Drago Filippo F Salomone Salvatore S
Frontiers in pharmacology 20190417
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental illness developed by vulnerable individuals exposed to life-threatening events. The pharmacological unresponsiveness displayed by the vast majority of PTSD patients has raised considerable interest in understanding the poorly known pathophysiological mechanisms underlying this disorder. Most studies in the field focused, so far, on noradrenergic mechanisms, because of their well-established role in either tuning arousal or in encoding emotional m ...[more]