Inside the World of Trauma

Why do some trauma survivors constantly scan their surroundings, anticipate danger, or struggle to relax even when they are safe? In this episode, we explore hypervigilance, a heightened state of threat monitoring that can develop following traumatic...

Two people can survive the same terrifying event, yet only one may later develop post-traumatic stress disorder. Why? PTSD is not determined simply by how frightening an experience was, but by a complicated interaction among biology, previous...

Avoiding painful memories can feel like the most sensible response to trauma: if thinking about it hurts, why think about it? But avoidance can produce immediate relief while unintentionally teaching the brain that the memory itself remains dangerous....

2018 randomized trial found that playing Tetris in the emergency department shortly after a car accident cut intrusive memories by about 62 percent in the following week. The approach uses the game’s visuospatial demands to compete with how the brain...

Carlos talks with Dr. David Grand, the developer of Brainspotting, about how specific eye positions can access and help process unresolved trauma stored in the brain and body. The conversation covers the theory behind the technique, how it differs...