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Ten minutes of aerobic exercise with exposure therapy shown to reduce PTSD symptoms – Neuroscience News

Summary: Increasing exposure therapy with ten minutes of aerobic exercise reduces the severity of PTSD symptoms for up to six months after completing a nine-week treatment. Source: University of New South Wales Exposure therapy is one of the main treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but up to half of patients do not respond to …

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A new family of adeno-associated viral vectors has been shown to be more efficient in delivering genetic cargo

A new family of adeno-associated viral vectors has been shown to be more efficient in delivering genetic cargo

Gene therapies can treat and even cure some genetic diseases, but it is difficult to deliver the treatments to the parts of the body where they are needed. The researchers engineered viruses called adeno-associated viruses (AAV) to deliver the cargo -; as a functional copy of a gene -; to specific cells and organs, but …

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Meditation has been shown to be as effective as drug therapy for treating anxiety

Meditation has been shown to be as effective as drug therapy for treating anxiety

Bruce Banner is notoriously bad at controlling his emotions. It’s sort of his business, but in 2008 The Incredible Hulk, he makes a real effort to control his feelings. We see him withdrawing from his old life and taking up meditation and yoga. As a result, he hasn’t had a Hulk-shaped explosion in five months. …

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