Harnessing Electroceuticals to Treat Disorders Arising from Traumatic Stress: Theoretical Considerations Using a Psychosensory Model

Symptoms arising from a traumatically encoded event are produced by continual/intermittent activation of an encoded memory (either by conscious/subconscious or inadvertent recall) and the release of stress hormones.1 These hormones generate an allostatic load2 that drives an attempt to a restore the pre-event state. This adaptation ultimately becomes maladaptive as the consequences of the chronic, inescapable stress dysregulate homeostatic processes causing a wide range of both physical and emotional problems.

Source: Explore - September 6, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Ronald A. Ruden Tags: Hypothesis Source Type: research