Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disease that may develop after experiencing a traumatic event and it is characterized by resistance to extinction of the traumatic memory.

The popular book The Body Keeps the Score has mainstreamed the idea that the body stores repressed traumatic memories.

Trauma is often viewed as a painful memory that gradually fades with time. While many people recover naturally after ...

Our brain is always there. From birth, and even prenatally, it is exposed to the environment. How does the brain react to that? The brain shows spontaneous or intrinsic activity that seems to remain ...

During my dissertation research on combat veterans with post-traumatic stress (PTS), I realized that when discussing traumatic events that lead to PTS, the victim often has a hard time describing the ...

Intrusive memories are a key symptom of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) has been proposed as a possible mechanism influencing intrusive memories in PTSD ...

Soon after Christine Blasey Ford went public with her story about Brett Kavanaugh, critics began to question her memory. Ford says Kavanaugh and a friend assaulted her at a house party when they were ...

Child maltreatment, which includes abuse and neglect, is one of the most serious public health concerns worldwide. These adversities leave a lasting impact on the emotional well-being, memory, and ...

Traumatic events in childhood do not only leave emotional scars. Sometimes, they leave biological ones too. Saloni Patel, a ...

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To recover from abuse or another traumatic experience, some people turn to a therapy called eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR. But this may present problems if these people pursue ...