PTSD is an abstract, cloudy disorder, past trauma, and past danger survive in the present. Trauma is stored in the right amygdala as implicit memory. It does not act or feel like regular memories. When trauma happens parts of the brain go offline, language, and the prefrontal cortex. Our ...
Repeated traumatization becomes more difficult to heal from. There has been a good deal of research and writing about a condition that is sometimes called complex trauma. While it’s not an official diagnosis, is helpful for many people to think about it this way. Someone may be able to e...
. However, not all reports indicate a positive association between inflammation and fear- and anxiety-based symptoms, suggesting that other factors are important in future assessments of inflammation’s role in the maintenance of these disorders (ie, sex, co-morbid conditions, types of trauma ...
We evaluated DNA methylation from blood of female participants in the Grady Trauma Project and found that serum estradiol levels associates with DNA methylation across the genome. For genes expressed in blood, we examined the association between each CpG site and PTSD diagnosis using linear models ...
also discussed. We suggest that optimizing sleep quality following trauma, and even strategically timing sleep to strengthen extinction memories therapeutically instantiated during exposure therapy, may allow sleep itself to be recruited in the treatment of PTSD and other trauma and stress-related ...
It has taken me three years to complete one study and a mere two years to finish the other, but I believe I have contributed to the scientific understanding of reseasrchers for possible heart ailments and changes in thinking and memory for adults. ...
I used to think that and while my trauma has not gone anywhere, it simply doesn’t affect me anymore.This guide is a collection of what I and many others who are much more knowledgeable than me consider to be the most effective and cutting edge solutions to mental illness and the ...
I have found areas inside me that are not traumatized. We all have what spiritual shamans call the true self, the soul. It’s the part of us that has been the same since birth. Thought can not sense it, or feel it. Trauma can never reach it, only we can access it. ...
Importantly, exposure to trauma in childhood is associated with increased risk for developing PTSD and other psychiatric conditions (Edwards et al, 2003). Elevated concentrations of pro-inflammatory markers have been observed in individuals with PTSD (Guo et al, 2012; Hoge et al, 2009; Table 1,...