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 ...

This post was co-written by Dr. Deryn Strange, professor of forensic psychology at John Jay College. Our memories are not perfect reconstructions of the past. Instead, remembering a past event is a ...

Why is the timing of trauma so important? New research shows that estrogen levels in the hippocampus at the moment of stress ...

The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, focused on treating intrusive, vivid, and unwanted memories of trauma, a core symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The treatment – called ...

Playing Tetris could help reduce distressing memories of trauma, a study has found. Health workers who played the classic computer game as part of their treatment experienced fewer flashbacks, ...

In the study, participants’ traumatic memories were first reactivated, and only then was brain stimulation applied — precisely at the stage when the memory is in a “flexible” state and amenable to ...

A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...