Our brain is always there. From birth, and even prenatally, it is exposed to the environment. How does the brain react to that? The brain shows spontaneous or intrinsic activity that seems to remain ...

Child maltreatment, which includes abuse and neglect, is one of the most serious public health concerns worldwide. These adversities leave a lasting impact on the emotional well-being, memory, and ...

Trauma is often viewed as a painful memory that gradually fades with time. While many people recover naturally after ...

Soon after Christine Blasey Ford went public with her story about Brett Kavanaugh, critics began to question her memory. Ford says Kavanaugh and a friend assaulted her at a house party when they were ...

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 ...

Traumatic events in childhood do not only leave emotional scars. Sometimes, they leave biological ones too. Saloni Patel, a ...

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The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is leading a new multi-center clinical trial to evaluate an interdisciplinary rehabilitation model for military veterans and first responders with mild traumatic ...

Retrograde amnesia is the inability to remember past experiences. It's different than anterograde amnesia, which is the inability to form new memories. Types of retrograde amnesia have different ...

To recover from abuse or another traumatic experience, some people turn to a therapy called eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR. But this may present problems if these people pursue ...