A new analysis of the brain activity of people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the first to reveal that traumatic memories are represented in the brain in an entirely different way than ...

A new study shows that when individuals with PTSD recall traumatic events, each person displays different brain activity, which is markedly different from when they recall a sad or neutral memory.

Children who experience traumatic events may show subtle but measurable differences in how their brains process attention and ...

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experience traumatic memories differently than other types of negative memories. A recent Nature Neuroscience study investigates the neural patterns ...

A new study reveals that aggression and self-harm share a biological foundation in the brain’s response to early-life trauma.

Autobiographical memory refers to the recollection of personally experienced significant events that contribute to an individual's sense of self. There is consensus in the literature on the ...

It is natural not to remember childhood memories. However, certain factors can affect how much of their childhood a person remembers. People usually cannot remember events that occurred before they ...

Past psychology studies suggest that people tend to remember emotional events, such as their wedding, the birth of a child or ...

Emotional highs and lows and questions of who we are are a natural part of adolescence. During this transformative period, young people go through profound psychological changes that affect how they ...