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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

I've never really liked the dentist as an adult, but never thought much about it. But recently, I had a dentist appointment scheduled, and, as the day went on, something kept nagging at me. After a ...

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 ...

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 ...