Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trauma isn’t always the loud, dramatic ordeal Hollywood loves to portray. It can be more like an uninvited guest, subtly weaving ...

Repeating a school year, experiencing parental abuse or engaging in armed combat have far-reaching long-term effects. Lifetime trauma may even worsen end-of-life pain and discomfort, depression and ...

Sora Shin, a Virginia Tech assistant professor with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, will study how brain circuits contribute to aggressive behavior with a $3.2 million grant from the ...

In her book It’s Not You, It’s What Happened to You, my friend and colleague Dr. Christine Courtois writes, “Trauma is any event or experience (including witnessing) that is physically and/or ...

Clinicians should consider the impact of cumulative hardships when treating patients in their final years. Repeating a school year, experiencing parental abuse or engaging in armed combat have ...

You probably think your hair is just sitting there looking pretty (or not so pretty on bad hair days), but it’s actually functioning as a biological record keeper, documenting every major emotional ...

The water in the river is fresh every moment. Life also flows like a river, where every moment is new and fresh. When you have a nightmare, when you wake up, you palpitate, and you feel very bitter ...