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.

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.

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

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers insight into how past stress impacts a ...

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.

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 ...

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.