Most people who experience severe trauma recover their health. But 23 percent develop PTSD, a difficult-to-treat illness that combines intrusive thoughts abo...

Studies over the past 20 years have found a correlation between the number of adverse childhood events (such as death or divorce) and worse health outcomes l...

Across the substance misuse and housing fields there has been increasing interest in Trauma Informed approaches. I recently came across an excellent and tho...

Researchers from the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Yale University School of Medicine, the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and the University of Californ...

Experiences such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, also can lead to changes in a child's brain chemistry, muting t...

In recent posts I shared research on how trauma ages children prematurely at a cellular level. This, combined with recent conversations with colleagues of m...

A specially designed computer program can help diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans by analyzing their voices, a new study finds. Publ...

A study lead by Penn Medicine researchers found that childhood trauma is linked to abnormal connectivity in the brain in adults with major depressive disorde...

This study interested me for two reasons. Firstly is the fact it illustrates a point I make in lecturers about how oxytocin can reduce anxiety by switching ...

A cutting-edge blood test discovered by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers could help more accurately diagnose military veterans and other peo...

Yesterday I was training in Sheffield (hi everyone, a great two days!). We were looking at the use of Teris for reducing intrusive memories and I was asked w...

A behavioral intervention procedure including the computer game Tetris could help people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to alleviate involuntaril...

In working with trauma I often use approaches that help people re-write memories in order to reduce the emotional distress. Whilst this idea feel counter-in...

Traumatic experiences can become deeply entrenched in a person's memory. How can fears following a traumatic event be reduced in the long term and prevented ...

Having extolled the virtues of Tetris in reducing trauma, it appears tat this classic vintage game is also helpful for managing anxiety.The venerable video g...

A multiyear clinical trial comparing medication and mental health counseling in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder shows that patients who chose...

Th Conversation has published a fascinating review of the research in how early averse childhood experiences can accelerate the aging process. To read the r...

In lectures I describe that there are two types of fear in humans, innate and learned. Whilst innate fears are located in the amygdala, learned fears reside...

Here is a really interesting article published in the Big Think that explains the links between sleep and PTSD. Click here to read.

In lectures on anxiety and trauma I describe how the re-writing of memories can alter the emotional response we experience from psychologically painful exper...