Consider Ethan and Kevin (their names are pseudonyms to protect their privacy), two children that I worked with as an ...

A new study reveals a connection between early life trauma and adult brain aging. Adults reporting severe childhood stress ...

Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...

On November 9th and 10th, I had the pleasure of directing our annual Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Conference, jointly sponsored by Boston University and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare ...

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 ...

Memory defines us in so many ways, but it’s not exactly what we think it is. We tend to imagine memory almost like a filing cabinet — a faithful record of the past we can pull from when needed. But ...

For decades, scientists have focused on the brain as the primary location for memory storage and processing. However, recent groundbreaking research from is challenging this long-standing assumption, ...