This week on Wellbeing, we begin a 14-week series on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In this episode we are kicking off by talking with international PTSD expert Professor Alexander McFarlane from the University of Adelaide, Australia. Prof. McFarlane’s research has focused on PTSD in military veterans, emergency service personnel and disaster victims having published over 250 articles and co-aurthored three books on the subject. In 2011, Professor McFarlane received the Officer of the Order of Australia Award in the Australia Day Honours List for his outstanding contributions to medical research in the field of PTSD. In this episode, Professor McFarlane talks about what exactly PTSD is, the prevalence of it in society, how genetics can make people more likely to develop PTSD, how PTSD changes the brain and how people can manage their PTSD.

"About 4.4% of the Australian population have a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. So, it is a far more common condition than people would have thought." - Prof. McFarlane on this episode of Wellbeing.

Tune in next week when we speak with Dr Shaili Jain, continuing our look into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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