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Working Through Trauma and PTSD

A recent Brainwave event welcomed Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez to speak with a psychotherapist about the ways in which trauma can be unraveled and reckoned with.

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Post-Traumatic Stress

A Patient’s Choice in Treatment Affects PTSD Outcomes

Patients given their treatment of choice stayed in the program longer and showed fewer symptoms at the end of one study than those randomly assigned to treatment that they did not prefer.
Post-Traumatic Stress

Preventing PTSD: A New Use for Ketamine?

Ketamine has shown promise in treating depression and extinguishing fearful memories. Could it also prevent the descent from fearful memory to full-blown disorder?
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Post-Traumatic Stress

Long-Term Memories

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Traumatic memories haunt the lives of people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and other illnesses. Fortunately, recent research into the changeability of long-term memories may someday develop into treatments for such individuals. But before this can happen, researchers must determine just how effectively the fear associated with older memories—especially those involved in PTSD—can be reduced and for how long.

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