What’s New in Psychology?

Traumatic Memories of PTSD Patients are Handled Differently

What’s New in Psychology?

Coping with the War in Israel and Gaza  

What’s New in Psychology?

Firearm Injury Carries Long-term Physical and Mental Burdens that are Poorly Understood      

What’s New in Psychology?

 Brain Response Linked to Risk and Severity of PTSD

What’s New in Psychology?

Dissociation and Substance Use

What’s New in Psychology

Watching Disaster News on TV and Social Media Can Spell PTSD for Some Children

What’s New in Psychology?

Research Reveals COVID-19 Traumatic Stress May Predict PTSD

Are We close to Learning to Weaken Fear Memories?

 Jim Windell

What Clinicians Can Do to Combat Anti-Asian Racism

 Jim Windell

How Does Trauma-Focused Therapy Work?

By Jim Windell

Who Gets PTSD and Who Doesn’t?

 By Jim Windell

Loss of Sleep Raises Risks for Anxiety and PTSD

By Jim Windell

This new study appears in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. Entitled “Partial and Total Sleep Deprivation Interferes with Neural Correlates of Consolidation of Fear Extinction Memory,” the study provides us with new insights into how sleep deprivation affects brain function to disrupt fear extinction.

            The researchers, led by Anne Germain, PhD, at the University of Pittsburgh, and Edward Pace-Schott, PhD, at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, studied 150 healthy adults in the sleep laboratory. One third of subjects got normal sleep, one third were sleep restricted, so they slept only the first half of the night, and one third were sleep deprived, so they got no sleep at all. In the morning, all the subjects underwent fear conditioning.

Sleep or No Sleep after a Trauma?

By Jim Windell

Why are Some Veterans More Susceptible to PTSD?

By Jim Windell

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) face a higher risk of heart disease at an earlier age than people without PTSD. That was been fairly well established. But why?

A research team’s abstract, recently published in The FASEB Journal, a journal that publishes in the biological sciences, helps explain why.