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Breakthrough Treatment For PTSD Gains State Funding

Bourke: "... altering the memory ..."

 

A dramatic new treatment for persons with post-traumatic stress syndrome received a significant boost to continue research with an $800,000 grant from State Senators William Larkin and John Bonacic, both from Orange County.

The Research and Recognition Project, based in Middletown, is a non-invasive, neurological treatment for veterans and others who are suffering from PTSD, said its founder Dr. Frank Bourke, who explained the process Thursday evening at Orange Regional Medical Center in Wallkill.

“We get the people disassociated and we take out portions of the very particular traumatic memory and alter it,” Bourke said. “One of the things that we would do image that something happened; you took a different turn. You didn’t go down the street with the IED. Now make a movie-visualization so we they are altering the memory quite concretely and when do that and you are relaxed, something happens that is not commonsensical, it’s neurological.”

Larkin, who is a retired army officer, said helping people overcome PTSD “is our responsibility.”

Bonacic said this treatment can replace the 30-year-old practice of utilizing medications, which do not cure the illness.

Report from: http://midhudsonnews.com/News/2015/September/04/PTSD_treatment-04Sep15.html

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