The Secrets Behind FAT- Easing PTSD

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• “PTSD” means post traumatic stress disorder.
• PTSD is an exaggerated experience of fear cause by a traumatic memory, common to war veterans.
• “DG” means dentate gyrus.
• DG serves as a means to regulate information flow in the brain, and is integral to generating fear memories.
• Adiponectin is a hormone that digests fatty acid, and is shown to be able to traverse the blood-brain barrier.
• Adiponectin is identified in reducing fear generation in mice. 
• “AdipoRon” and “AdipoR2” refers to an adiponectin protein.
• Research shows that knocking off AdipoR2 in mice results in a decrease in fear expression in mice. 
• Researchers were able to inject mice with AdipoR2 knockoff gene, to measure fear responses to electric shock stimuli.
• A functional link has been found to AdipoR2 application and fear reduction. 
• Read more, at Molecular Psychiatry.