Articles in Trauma & Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Child Abuse Primes for Future Mental and Physical Illness
A brain scan study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pinpoints the changes associated with child abuse that may raise people’s risk of depression, addictions and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as …
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Erasing Memories – Ethical?
People with post-traumatic stress disorder, constantly relive terrible experiences. In the last few years, there has been a huge body of work on the neural mechanisms of fear memories, writes University of Michigan neuroscientist Stephen …
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Suicide and PTSD
About 18 U.S. veterans kill themselves each day. Why? Clearly the trauma of warfare and PTSD plays a significant role. But why are these suicide rates higher now than in the past?
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