Stress can mold the way memories are formed, a study in mice suggests. This could help explain why PTSD and other anxiety disorders are so damaging, as well as offer avenues for future treatments.
In recent years, though, regulations have loosened, and interest in the field has been revived. “These days, we know a lot about the psychological effects and the molecular/cellular effects of psilocybin,” said first author Joshua S. Siegel, MD, PhD, an instructor in psychiatry. “But ...
When trauma happens, the way the mind remembers an event is altered. These memory disturbances can create vidid involuntary memories that enter consciousness causing the person to re-experience the event. These are known as flashbacks, and they happen in PTSD and Complex PTSD. Why do I only r...
In PTSD, a single traumatic event or series of traumas create a collection of distressing symptoms. This can include reliving the event through nightmares and flashbacks, a sense of the world being a darker, more complicated place, as well as hypervigilance and fear. The brain is seemingly ino...
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But to call PTSD a demon is so fucking insane. That is a bodily physical reaction to something that the world has done to a person. Allison Russell: Correct, correct. Glennon Doyle: Right? It’s something that the world has done to us, an inner demon. Also, when we label other ...
There are various disorders of the threat response, including PTSD, anxiety disorders, panic disorders, and phobias. So taking conditioned fears into account, what are the different kinds of fear that you see in your work? First off, let’s be clear here and differentiate different disorders of...
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