Author(s)

Ning Bei¹, Dengyi Long¹, Juncheng Guo², Xiangling Jiang^3*

¹Hainan Provincial Cadre Sanatorium (Hainan Geriatric Hospital), Haikou, China.
²Xiangya School of Medicine Affiliated Haikou Hospital, Central South University, Haikou, China.
³Department of Psychology, Hainan General Hospital, Haikou, China.

In recent years, with the increase of natural disasters, wars, and terrorist incidents, etc., there are more and more researches on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This paper bases on the definition, pathogenic mechanism and related gene research of post-traumatic stress disorder. Mechanism, reviews the research status of post-traumatic stress disorder to improve people’s understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder, and prospect for future research.

Post-Traumatic, Stress Disorder, DRD2, PTSD

Bei, N. , Long, D. , Guo, J. and Jiang, X. (2019) Progress in Research on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, 9, 26-32. doi: 10.4236/jbbs.2019.92003.