Memories of childhood trauma aren't set in stone — they can shift, resurface, or even diverge from the original event, ...

An Iowa State University professor’s research, born from tragedies witnessed during Hurricane Katrina, has opened up ...

Scientists found that childhood trauma can change DNA and brain development, leaving long-term biological marks.

New research has found that, in people with PTSD, the brain processes traumatic personal memories differently from sad ones, activating a region of the brain normally associated with things like ...

An analysis of brain activity in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder has found that the brain processes traumatic memories associated with PTSD differently than regular memories -- a finding ...

A new analysis of the brain activity of people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the first to reveal that traumatic memories are represented in the brain in an entirely different way than ...

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) process sad, non-traumatic memories differently to traumatic memories, new research suggests. People with PTSD experience intrusive, recurrent ...

A new analysis of the brain activity of people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the first to reveal that traumatic memories are represented in the brain in an entirely different way than ...

It has long been understood that people who have experienced trauma have a different relationship to those memories than they would to memories of typical, everyday events. Even memories with negative ...

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 ...

A new study shows that when individuals with PTSD recall traumatic events, each person displays different brain activity, which is markedly different from when they recall a sad or neutral memory.