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Big Think: Trauma doesn’t end when the danger does, and for decades, science couldn’t explain why. Rachel Yehuda, a leading PTSD researcher, has spent her career inside that question, uncovering the way that trauma can leave impressions on our genes, sometimes passing biological echoes of those events to the next generation.

Playback speed 1× Subtitles Share post Share post at current time Share from 17:47 2:41 / 50:00 Transcript My current research is really about understanding long-term effects of stress and really entertaining the question of why we are so transformed when we undergo traumatic experiences and why the effects can linger for so long. We are looking at a variety of hormonal and molecular mechanisms to try to help us understand that. I’m also interested in treatment of PTSD. And really what to do about the fact that so many people have effects of traumatic experiences that trouble them. They feel haunted by their traumatic experiences or they feel really stuck because of things that have happened to them in the past. So what’s the best way to get unstuck and what’s the best way to move forward following trauma exposure? So those are the things that my colleagues and I are studying. Why I’ve dedicated my career to studying the effects of trauma is because trauma exposure seems to be everywhere. And increasingly, the more we seem to be learning about the effects of trauma, in some ways, the more stuck we’re getting as a society. We see it as sort of an insurmountable burden or barrier when, in fact, there’s always been stress and there’s always been trauma. And truly, there must also be a way to go forward in the face of trauma and use the lessons of trauma to really achieve resilience and post-traumatic growth. I think what’s really helpful is to make the distinction between the experience of stress and the experience of trauma. So maybe what’s useful is to talk about the difference between stress and trauma. We experience both on pretty much a regular basis, according to statistics. Many people see it as a kind of continuum, with stress being maybe a less serious version of trauma, and trauma’s sort of at the other end of the spectrum. And that’s not entirely wrong. A stressful event is something that is challenging to you in the moment. It could be a trouble at work, trouble in interpersonal relationships. It could be an illness or coping with really any of a number of things. When most people talk about a traumatic experience, they’re talking more in the order of life threat, interpersonal violence, childhood abuse, combat, being in a natural disaster. So clearly there is a range of challenging events with trauma being at the other end of the spectrum. But the differences go even deeper than that because when we talk about a stressful situation, 38 1 3 A PTSD researcher explains MDMA-assisted therapy This isn’t a trip, it’s the … Continue reading

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Yale University: How Our Past Trauma Drives Our Brain’s Response to New Stress

In Depth How Our Past Trauma Drives Our Brain’s Response to New Stress By Isabella Backman August 2025 3 Minute Read Share article A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers insight into how past stress impacts a person’s … Continue reading

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Journal of Neurotrauma: TBI over survivor’s life time. November 5, 2024

Recognizing traumatic brain injury as a chronic condition fosters better care over the survivor’s lifetime by Regenstrief Institute  Editors’ notes Add as preferred source Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A commentary, published in the Journal of Neurotrauma, calls for traumatic brain injury to be recognized … Continue reading

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Fear … TBI no sense of time and space. Being an outsider looking in. 30 years and answers go so far beyond the neurosurgeons and consultants of that time whose answer was merely no head injury is the same … go and adapt. No need to ask questions. But I say keep asking them. This is AI at its best being a synopsis of what gave me the most FEAR.

The feelings of having  no sense of time and space and feeling like you are an outsider looking in on the world are recognized symptoms of a traumatic brain injury (TBI), specifically associated with depersonalization and derealization. These are real neurological and psychological symptoms resulting … Continue reading

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TBI: Why we “stare”. I tend to stare, and put it down to resting the brain. AI answer.

A vacant stare in someone with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can be a sign of a TBI symptom like a seizure, disorientation, or a reduced ability to concentrate and process information. It can also be related to dissociation or flat/blunted affect, which involves a detached … Continue reading

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Verbal abuse in childhood has devastating impact on adult brain

Mental Health Verbal abuse in childhood has devastating impact on adult brain By Bronwyn Thompson August 06, 2025 Words can cause significant harm, new study shows A major new study has found that verbal abuse in childhood may be just as … Continue reading

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Killing in Combat Doesn’t Always Harm Soldiers’ Mental Health

FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology ·March 27, 2025 Summary: A large study of over 14,000 Norwegian veterans reveals that taking a life in combat doesn’t automatically damage a soldier’s mental health—context matters. Veterans from Afghanistan, where combat was expected and rules of engagement were clear, … Continue reading

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Grok 3. Using X = suggestion = ask a question. Years writing about how TBI has impacted on my life, taking prompts from articles read, this takes just a minute. This is AI and it is time for people to engage in this leap frog era of knowledge which is about power.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have a wide range of long-term effects, depending on the severity of the injury, the area of the brain affected, and the individual’s overall health and recovery process. Below is an overview of potential long-term … Continue reading

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I am 29 years old. At 24, I sustained a traumatic brain injury. It has been extremely difficult losing my intellect.. Comment from canisgallicus.com: 30+ yrs on with impact of TBI and never heard of it as described “extremely difficult losing my intellect”. To me this is the silent epidemic that nobody acknowledges and in a world of competitive focused on IQ, Elon’s essay conveys the case of a man aged just 29. 1990’s aged 32 it happened to me and as this website will convey, there were many hurdles summed up in yesterday’s visit to Nuclear Medicine for a Cat Scan where AI meets medicine. see below book I wrote while going through breast cancer treatment which details the medical conveyor belt of illhealth associated with TBI, Wisdom tells me that the reason the medical team tell you that the no head injury is the same because when you think about it no two people are the same. In my case, depression but more difficult to contend with, Anxiety, which made TBI far more difficult and complex.

Home Following Answer Spaces Notifications Elon Meir ·  What is it like to have very low IQ? I am 29 years old. At 24, I sustained a traumatic brain injury. It has been extremely difficult losing my intellect. I attended a … Continue reading

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FT suggestions today: Article to read free. Mental illness and Hope. This article is from New Atlas September 23rd 2024 but I suggest you read both. Uppsala University

Mental Health Tetris: The surprise therapy for PTSD flashbacks By Abhimanyu Ghoshal September 23, 2024 This classic video game from the 80s is good for more than just keeping you occupied Tom Tang / Unsplash View 2 Images A study conducted by … Continue reading

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