This post was co-written by Dr. Deryn Strange, professor of forensic psychology at John Jay College. Our memories are not perfect reconstructions of the past. Instead, remembering a past event is a ...

If trauma isn’t the event, the memory, or the reaction, what is it? Here's a clearer, more hopeful way to understand healing.

Memory is commonly affected following a traumatic brain injury and may be long-lasting or even permanent. A new study has found that AI-guided electrical brain stimulation in people with ...

Learn how PTSD and traumatic brain injury are linked, why they’re hard to prove in court, and what evidence strengthens your ...

In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...

A new developmental theory from an Iowa State researcher describes how our memory and perception of trauma can evolve over time, shifting with new experiences and as cognitive and emotional ...

It begins with a voice, a sweet soprano humming in the darkness. Then a girl begins to read from a children's primer: "Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty." ...

New research has found that, in people with PTSD, the brain processes traumatic personal memories differently from sad ones, activating a region of the brain normally associated with things like ...

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 ...