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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 new j... read more

Teen brains facilitate recovery from traumatic memories

Unique connections in the adolescent brain make it possible ... will often undergo a stress or trauma and seem completely fine, even for years," she said. "But many of them will experience anxiety 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

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

Is memory in your brain, body or both?

Those fleeting memories ... This makes sense, because damage to the frontal cortex from a stroke or other brain trauma results in a profound loss of ability to recall recent information. In addition, ... read more

Gone but never forgotten: how to comfort a child whose sibling has died

Untold and unheard stories appear in comments sections, strangers tell me cross-culturally consistent tales in the soft corners of conference rooms and speak about the siblings they’ve lost and how pr... read more

‘Her’, OS Sentience, and the Desire to Love

But seeing as how the OS1 is only brand new, I’m sure the company wasn’t expecting something as big as this, let alone think about providing artificial bodies for their operating systems! read more

Child protection: In this system, a more complicated kind of Mother's Day

Her visits with her baby were painful because the baby ... stress changes how our bodies and minds respond to threat and colors memories and perceptions. Any perceived threat or reminder of one’s trau... read more

59 Horror Directors on the Scares That Shaped (and Traumatized) Them

And when the pig’s blood is dropped on her and we see her expression curdle from utter horror to this like dead-eyed, buzzing vacancy — that was kind of traumatic ... when you are young because you ha... 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

Thinking Outside the Box: Post traumatic growth

Change that is thrust upon us from our parents, partners, bodies or careers creates a unique ... the deep brain wounds of traumatic memories. A mentor told me that repressed emotions are common in can... read more

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 new j... read more