Study Reveals Link Between Autism, PTSD

For the first time, researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute have proved that a mild stress is enough to trigger post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in mouse models of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Postdoctoral Fellow at The Australian National University (ANU) College of Health and Medicine, Dr Shaam Al Abed and group leader at the Eccles Institute of Neuroscience of The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Dr Nathalie Dehorter have demonstrated that the two disorders share a reciprocal relationship, …