The trauma you experience can actually change how both your body and brain work. Let's go through what PTSD is, how it changes someone and what the treatment options are.

Whether it’s the loud bang when two football players collide or the visible scars as their broken tissue mends, the physical trauma of a brain injury understandably takes center stage.

DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-04228-5 Exposure to trauma can be life-changing—and researchers are learning more about how traumatic events may physically change our brains.

In research conducted on mice a team discovered brain mechanisms that go awry as a result of exposure to trauma in infancy and showed that these changes may be reversible if treated early.

The connection between trauma and the brain is a topic that’s important to acknowledge in June during Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. According to the National Center for PTSD, ...

Traumatic brain injury multiplies the risk of major depression eightfold. While the emotional trauma of whatever caused such deep damage may be understandable, from a blast in a war zone to a blow ...

Traumatic memories had their own neural mechanism, brain scans showed, which may help explain their vivid and intrusive nature. By Ellen Barry At the root of post-traumatic stress disorder, or ...

An interview with neuroscientist Daniela Schiller, co-author of a recent study offering evidence that the brain encodes traumatic memories differently from other memories.