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 --...

The causes of psychiatric disorders are poorly understood. Now, in work led by researchers at McGill University, there is evidence that a...

A team of researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered that people tend to give more praise to someone for their good...

Legend has it that Marie Antoinette's hair turned gray overnight just before her beheading in 1791. Though the legend is inaccurate --...

What information is retained in a memory over time, and which parts get lost? These questions have led to many scientific theories over...

A new technological solution has emerged for the treatment of traumatic nightmares and has just been cleared as a treatment by the FDA in...

Sleep is crucial for consolidating our memories, and sleep deprivation has long been known to interfere with learning and memory. Now a...

The endogenous regulation of a specific gene is associated with a reduced risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder following a...

The human brain operates on many levels. When we consider things which are distant in time, space or intimacy the rational brain tends...

It's been estimated that up to 88% of survivors of sexual assault suffer from persistent nightmares that can occur multiple times per...

I was recently looking for some research on a separate project and came across this early pioneering study in language and emotional...

Most people who experience severe trauma recover their health. But 23 percent develop PTSD, a difficult-to-treat illness that combines...

Studies over the past 20 years have found a correlation between the number of adverse childhood events (such as death or divorce) and...

Across the substance misuse and housing fields there has been increasing interest in Trauma Informed approaches. I recently came across...

Researchers from the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Yale University School of Medicine, the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and the...

Experiences such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, also can lead to changes in a child's brain...

In recent posts I shared research on how trauma ages children prematurely at a cellular level. This, combined with recent conversations...

A specially designed computer program can help diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans by analyzing their voices, a...

A study lead by Penn Medicine researchers found that childhood trauma is linked to abnormal connectivity in the brain in adults with...

This study interested me for two reasons. Firstly is the fact it illustrates a point I make in lecturers about how oxytocin can reduce...