PTSD is often associated with combat veterans, but experts say the condition can affect anyone who experiences a traumatic ...

Trauma is often viewed as a painful memory that gradually fades with time. While many people recover naturally after ...

PTSD is not a battlefield cliché or a character flaw, but a survivable injury of the nervous system that demands early recognition, competent treatment, and a culture willing to stop letting warriors ...

Currently, the first-choice treatment for PTSD is exposure-based psychotherapy, where therapists help rewire the emotions associated with the traumatic memory in the patient’s brain, shifting from ...

There is relatively little empirical research into the flashback phenomenon. Nevertheless, flashbacks are a common distressing symptom people experience in the aftermath of surviving a traumatic event ...

A simple, digital intervention that includes mentally playing Tetris can dramatically reduce intrusive memories of trauma in a month, even to the point of being symptom-free after six months, new ...

This post was co-authored by Divya Bhupal and Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. “Most places your mind saves JPEGs, mine has text files instead.” This is how Mike (name changed for anonymity) describes living ...