A recent study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging finds that childhood trauma can lead to disruptions in two main regions of the brain, the default mode ...

One and a half million people in the United States suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year. Attention tends to be focused on regaining physical health and brain recovery—to the extent possible ...

Trauma may be even more complex than previously thought. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often portrayed in popular ...

Despite growing awareness, many clinicians remain reluctant to screen for trauma, according to Dr Melinyshyn. Concerns like ...

Scientists have discovered a brain circuit that gives pain its emotional sting, explaining why some hurts linger as suffering. The breakthrough challenges our beliefs about how we process pain and may ...

Whenever something bad happens to us, brain systems responsible for mediating emotions kick in to prevent it from happening again. When we get stung by a wasp, the association between pain and wasps ...

With more comprehensive medical documentation, juries are placing greater weight on TBI claims. Testing has gotten to ...

To the nervous system, distress is distress. The result is a surge of stress hormones, shallow or altered breathing, ...

Traumatic brain injury cases demand medical proof, expert testimony, and precise damage calculations to secure long-term ...

Self-harming and self-sabotaging behaviors, from skin picking to ghosting people, all stem from evolutionary survival mechanisms, according to a compelling new psychological analysis.

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