Re-Wiring Memory
You may not realize it, but each time you recall a memory -- like your first time riding a bike or walking into your high school prom --...
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Phil Harris
Dec 9, 20212 min read
3 Factors Predict Mental Illness
The causes of psychiatric disorders are poorly understood. Now, in work led by researchers at McGill University, there is evidence that a...
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Phil Harris
Oct 14, 20212 min read
Past Trauma Changes Others Current Perspective
A team of researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered that people tend to give more praise to someone for their good...
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Phil Harris
Jun 23, 20214 min read
Grey Pride
Legend has it that Marie Antoinette's hair turned gray overnight just before her beheading in 1791. Though the legend is inaccurate --...
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Phil Harris
Jun 8, 20213 min read
How Memory Fades
What information is retained in a memory over time, and which parts get lost? These questions have led to many scientific theories over...
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Phil Harris
Nov 24, 20201 min read
New Treatment Approach for Traumatic Nightmares
A new technological solution has emerged for the treatment of traumatic nightmares and has just been cleared as a treatment by the FDA in...
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Phil Harris
Nov 18, 20203 min read
Sleep & Trauma: More Evidence of a Link
Sleep is crucial for consolidating our memories, and sleep deprivation has long been known to interfere with learning and memory. Now a...
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Phil Harris
Aug 19, 20202 min read
Mechanism for Trauma Memory Identified
The endogenous regulation of a specific gene is associated with a reduced risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder following a...
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Phil Harris
Jul 1, 20203 min read
Trauma: Distance Matters
The human brain operates on many levels. When we consider things which are distant in time, space or intimacy the rational brain tends...
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Phil Harris
Jun 16, 20203 min read
What Triggers Nightmares in PTSD?
It's been estimated that up to 88% of survivors of sexual assault suffer from persistent nightmares that can occur multiple times per...
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Phil Harris
Jun 15, 20205 min read
Name Emotion Tame Emotion
I was recently looking for some research on a separate project and came across this early pioneering study in language and emotional...
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Phil Harris
Dec 19, 20193 min read
How Does PTSD Evolve?
Most people who experience severe trauma recover their health. But 23 percent develop PTSD, a difficult-to-treat illness that combines...
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Phil Harris
Sep 23, 20193 min read
Being There for Young People
Studies over the past 20 years have found a correlation between the number of adverse childhood events (such as death or divorce) and...
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Phil Harris
Sep 3, 20191 min read
Trauma Informed Care: What is It and Does It Matter?
Across the substance misuse and housing fields there has been increasing interest in Trauma Informed approaches. I recently came across...
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Phil Harris
Jul 30, 20193 min read
Trauma: Are We Genetically Sensitive?
Researchers from the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Yale University School of Medicine, the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and the...
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Phil Harris
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Are Traumatized Children Cortisol Tolerant?
Experiences such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, also can lead to changes in a child's brain...
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Phil Harris
May 23, 20195 min read
Doctors Age Six Times Faster
In recent posts I shared research on how trauma ages children prematurely at a cellular level. This, combined with recent conversations...
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Phil Harris
Apr 24, 20193 min read
PTSD Diagnosed by Voice
A specially designed computer program can help diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans by analyzing their voices, a...
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Phil Harris
Apr 13, 20192 min read
Childhood Trauma and Depression
A study lead by Penn Medicine researchers found that childhood trauma is linked to abnormal connectivity in the brain in adults with...
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Phil Harris
Mar 13, 20194 min read
Fear: The Illusion Destroyer?
This study interested me for two reasons. Firstly is the fact it illustrates a point I make in lecturers about how oxytocin can reduce...
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