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Memories of trauma are unique because of how brains and bodies respond to threat

Most of what you experience leaves no trace in your memory. Learning new information often requires a lot of effort and repetition – picture studying for a tough exam or mastering the tasks of a ... read more

You can't 'erase' bad memories, but you can learn ways to cope with them

Read more: Memories of trauma are unique because of how brains and bodies respond to threat One way to reduce the chances of relapse is to confront irrational fear at every opportunity and create ... read more

The Science Behind PTSD Symptoms: How Trauma Changes The Brain

After any type of trauma ... brain, primed to threat and supported by dysregulated activity in significant brain structures, holds the survivor in a constant reactive state. The four categories of PTS... read more

My 2016 Vote: ‘No Confidence’

Every time I encounter one of our two major party nominees, the same nervous tic of a response kicks up in my brain: “Surely the other one must be better.” This was not always the case. When Donald Tr... read more

What Anxiety Does to Your Brain and What You Can Do About It

Unfortunately, when we start to feel excessive anxiety, or we live in a constant state of anxiety, we're in trouble. Our bodies ... the rest of the brain that a threat is present and trigger a fear or ... read more

New Ways Of Treating Trauma: Try Some Yoga

When a person experiences traumatic ... toward my son because I feel guilty about having killed a child in Iraq”). However, the rational brain cannot abolish emotions, sensations, or thoughts (such as ... read more

Dershowitz: Kavanaugh dispute is 'all about partisanship'; Ann Coulter talks Trump derangement syndrome on 'The View'

The man also says that, during their entire six-year relationship, Ford never mentioned being a victim of sexual assault or of any other kind of trauma ... is a central question, because most psychiat... read more

10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers

For example, thinking of the word “fox” may automatically spread activation to memories ... brain-damaged patients is examined to determine the computational function of the damaged region. Unfortunat... read more

How Single or Dual Parenting Affects Early Brain Development

It’s a study in mice, but results from an intriguing experiment suggests that having one or two parents can affect new nerve growth in the brain, and that male and females respond differently ... stor... read more

Perinatal psychiatry, birth trauma and perinatal PTSD

Birth Trauma definitions include "a negative and disempowering physiological & emotional response to a birth" or "when an individual (mother, father, or other witness) believes the mother's or her bab... read more

Brains work via their genes just as much as their neurons

We now know that about 100 billion neurons connect with each other in a human brain to form complex circuits that carry electrical and chemical messages to make memories ... Honeybees respond aggressi... read more