Understanding the Emotional Wound That Doesn’t Always Show on the Surface. Trauma is the emotional and psychological response to an event—or series of events—that overwhelms a person’s ability to cope ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Current research shows that playing Tetris after a traumatic event may reduce incidences of intrusive memories.

Severe lung inflammation has been linked to symptoms resembling post-traumatic stress disorder in mice, which could help us ...

Could science fiction become reality? In 2004’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Jim Carrey’s character undergoes a memory-erasing procedure to forget his ex. But while the procedure seemed ...

Researchers have found that increased neuron formation and the subsequent rewiring of neural circuits in the hippocampus through exercise or genetic manipulation helps mice forget traumatic or ...

Some traumatic events have the power to significantly alter a person's life. Many of these cause a person to stay under significant stress for a long period. A team of researchers recently set out to ...