San Diego—Once thought to be a pipe dream, stellate ganglion block has been demonstrated in many trials to improve post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sometimes radically. A pilot study at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) not only confirmed these findings, but has taken it one step further by investigating the neurobiology of the disorder and how the block works.
Researchers there have concluded that the right amygdala and