Does chronic stress trigger NGF?
Dr. Lipov: Acute trauma definitely increases NGF. Just in your perception of possible trauma, like we know your mind, you know you’re going to jump out of an airplane, and it doubles. That tells you right there something biological is happening. It’s not hypothetic, it does really happen. It’s measurable. You can get a meg scan and know 90% certainty that someone has PTSD. That’s huge, I think. Do you think it changes the conventional thought? Dr. Lipov: If you think it’s in the mind, then why would biological intervention have anything to do with it? Then you have to do psychological talk therapy and things like that. It’s not just a very clearly understood mechanism, but since now, in the 20th century, everyone wants to have a mechanistic approach, and that was the main criticism originally in 2005 because I didn’t know why it worked. I said, I think there was even a comment made that since we do not know how it works, it cannot work. If you think of the history of penicillin, it was
