Nature Communications (May 2020)

PTSD is associated with neuroimmune suppression: evidence from PET imaging and postmortem transcriptomic studies

  • Shivani Bhatt,
  • Ansel T. Hillmer,
  • Matthew J. Girgenti,
  • Aleksandra Rusowicz,
  • Michael Kapinos,
  • Nabeel Nabulsi,
  • Yiyun Huang,
  • David Matuskey,
  • Gustavo A. Angarita,
  • Irina Esterlis,
  • Margaret T. Davis,
  • Steven M. Southwick,
  • Matthew J. Friedman,
  • Traumatic Stress Brain Study Group,
  • Ronald S. Duman,
  • Richard E. Carson,
  • John H. Krystal,
  • Robert H. Pietrzak,
  • Kelly P. Cosgrove

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15930-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Neuroinflammation has been proposed to accompany the peripheral inflammation observed in PTSD. Here, authors find lower in vivo and postmortem levels of neuroimmune marker TSPO (translocator protein) in PTSD, in association with greater PTSD severity and higher plasma CRP.