Effective PTSD drug therapy
Year
2015
Project team
Ki Goosens with Vikash Mansinghka and Mireya Nadal-Vicens
Modulating stress hormone
The team has shown that the stress hormone, ghrelin, plays a key role in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This project will focus on identifying a drug that can modulate ghrelin, which would provide a new therapy for stress-related disorders.