Can Surfing Reprogram the Veteran’s Brain?

Outside - Quotes Paula Schnurr, professor of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine and executive director of the Veterans Affairs National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in an article discussing how the physicality and flow of surfing can give victims of PTSD some relief, and how PTSD has been linked to changes in the neurocircuitry and neurotransmitters that balance the retrieval of memories. "People have profound changes in how they think of themselves in the world," says Schnurr.