The Invisible Machine - Eugene Lipov, Jamie Mustard
Holly Lorincz, Eugene Lipov, Jamie Mustard
Category: Science
Tags: Science
The world has long misunderstood trauma. Now, leading experts in the field have a radical new understanding of post-traumatic stress . . . and a surprising new treatment to reverse it could have profound implications for medicine, mental health, and society., Despite its prevalence, post-traumatic stress, PTSD, is often seen as an unbeatable lifelong mental disorder. However, top trauma doctors and neuroscientists now understand that the result of trauma is not a disorder, but rather a physical injuryand while invisible to the naked eye, the post-traumatic stress injury (PTSI) can now be seen on a scan. Most importantly, the effects of PTSI are reversible., Meet Dr. Eugene Lipov. His research and partnerships have led to an amazing discovery that all trauma has at its root a single piece of human hardware: the sympathetic nervous system, controlling the fight-or-flight response. Anyone who has endured trauma, including long-term microdoses of emotional stress, can have this injury. Dr.
