Futurity – The study of combat veterans who have experienced intense events shows that those with severe symptoms of PTSD have distinct patterns of neurological and physiological responses affecting associative learning—the ability to distinguish between harmful and safe stimuli in the environment. “We are shedding new light on how people learn fear and unlearn it,” says study coauthor Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University.
