Researchers discovered distinct molecular differences in how the brain processes directly experienced versus witnessed trauma -- a finding that could lead to more targeted treatments for PTSD.

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PTSD has been studied primarily in people who experience trauma firsthand, but a new Virginia Tech study shows that those who witness it can also experience brain changes. This includes military ...

As a communications professor whose research has focused on collective memory and trauma in the wake of 9/11, I am fascinated by the makeshift memorials that proliferate in Kensington, a ...

This perspective, that PTSD is related to defective processing of emotionally laden memories 9, has led to exposure therapy, in which repeated reactivation of the traumatic memory leads to the ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that doing just one new thing each day can significantly improve mood, ...

New research reveals that witnessing trauma triggers unique brain changes, distinct from those caused by experiencing trauma firsthand.

Years later, you experience one or many symptoms like foggy thinking or memory loss? Derrick Allred, MD, discusses if a concussion could be the cause. One in 60 people in the U.S. lives with a ...

we must carry forward the memory of these children and the generations stolen from us. We must transform our pain into purpose. Now is the time to heal our collective trauma. Now is the time to ...

For years, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been studied primarily in people who experience trauma firsthand.