Trauma theory shift: A new model suggests trauma is a disorder of brain threat prediction, not stored in body tissues, with flow states offering potential recovery benefits. Paper boosts recall: ...

During my dissertation research on combat veterans with post-traumatic stress (PTS), I realized that when discussing traumatic events that lead to PTS, the victim often has a hard time describing the ...

Currently, the first-choice treatment for PTSD is exposure-based psychotherapy, where therapists help rewire the emotions associated with the traumatic memory in the patient’s brain, shifting from ...

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The timing of trauma determines adult behavioral outcomes like aggression or social anxiety by impacting specific ...

Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Its goal is to help people process traumatic events while challenging and changing ...

Glial manipulation interferes with the long-term consolidation of fear memories. By artificially manipulating the state of astrocytes, it may become possible to prevent the long-term consolidation of ...