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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 ... read more

Overcoming PTSD: Study reveals memory disruption drug target

Fight or flight, panic, trembling: Our brains are wired to ensure we respond instantly ... we could identify something unique to the storage of traumatic memories to get at the heart of the ... 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

Why Some People Respond to Stress by Falling Asleep

After all, as everyone knows from 9th grade biology class, when faced with stress—an acute threat—our bodies ... therapeutic memories, sometimes termed 'fear extinction' memories. These are memories ... 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 ... 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 ... read more

Big T and Little t Trauma and How Your Body Reacts to It

A little t event is one experienced as traumatic at a personal level, such as the loss of a pet or a relationship breakup. When you experience a traumatic event, your body may respond ... The brain ... 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 ... read more

Recognizing the Potential Effect of Stress and Trauma on Premature Infants in the NICU: How are Outcomes Affected?

Chronic stress and trauma ... brain are primary in telling the body how to respond, that is, when and what hormones to release (corticosteroids, vasopressin, oxytocin, etc.), when to increase the ... read more

Memories of trauma are unique because of how we respond to threat

In some situations, when the threat is overwhelming ... of whether they come with conscious recollections of trauma. Conscious memories of trauma are encoded by various sites in the brain which ... 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 ... read more