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 ...

Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. A team of neurobiologists has identified the area of the brain responsible for spontaneously recalling traumatic ...

Stress enlarges memory engrams, leading to generalized fear responses in PTSD Blocking endocannabinoid receptors may restore memory specificity Research offers hope for tailored PTSD therapie It has ...

Currently, the first-choice treatment for PTSD is exposure-based psychotherapy, where therapists help rewire the emotions associated with the traumatic memory in the patient's brain, shifting from ...

If trauma isn’t the event, the memory, or the reaction, what is it? Here's a clearer, more hopeful way to understand healing.

People suffering from PTSD may be able to erase traumatic memories by changing the way they think about the context in which it was formed John Gomez/iStock We can intentionally erase memories we do ...

About 2.7 million Americans served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and at least 20 per cent of them have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (Darpa ...