New research reveals that witnessing trauma triggers distinct brain changes, separate from those caused by experiencing trauma firsthand. The study found that indirect trauma ...

If you have a history of trauma, you may experience vivid memories of traumatic events long after they've stopped happening. According to PTSD United, about 20% of individuals who have experienced ...

Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

A new nature reserve created by the National Trust has been named in memory of a young woman who lost her life to ...

This remains the case even though in his later work, Freud revised his original concept of repression to argue that it doesn’t work on actual memories of experiences, but rather involves the ...

Army veteran William Bottger battles PTSD and memory loss, but his loyal dog, Roxie, never leaves his side. With a ...

After Amy Griffin narrowly lost a school election aged 12, one of her favourite teachers, Mr Mason, stopped her in the ...

Between the two main characters in Gregg Araki's 'Mysterious Skin', the film viscerally depicts two vastly different responses to PTSD.

A husband struggles with how to help his wife heal from past trauma, while an aunt wrestles with whether to exclude a nephew ...

Dear Eric: Soon after we had our first child, my wife uncovered a repressed memory that she had been sexually abused by her ...

Dear Spouse: While your desire to help your wife comes from a good place, pressuring her to process her trauma in a way that ...

DEAR ERIC: Soon after we had our first child, my wife uncovered a repressed memory that she had been sexually abused by her ...