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 ...

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Memories of past trauma could soon be 'dialed down' in the brain so they no longer haunt us. The same techniques could ...

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

Most of the time, most of us wish we could remember things better. But some of the time all of us have things we wish we could forget. Traumas, emotional upset, grief - all can be more than we can ...

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Scientists say they are able to erase painful memories, paving the way for new treatments of debilitating phobias and stress disorders. Neurobiologists from the Georgia College of Medicine found they ...

If the brain is in a heightened state of arousal when it records a past event it sometimes cannot replay it until it returns to the same state when the memory formed Scientists have discovered that ...