07/10/2024
𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐓𝐒𝐃
👉At the root of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a memory that cannot be controlled. This memory can invade daily activity, throwing a person into the midst of a frightening event or emerge as night terrors or flashbacks.
👉Research conducted by a team of researchers from Yale University and the School of Medicine at Mount Sinai explored the empirical differences in how traumatic memories function compared to other memories. The study involved 28 people with PTSD who underwent brain scans while listening to recorded narrations of their memories. Some memories were neutral, some were simply “sad,” and some were traumatic.
👉 Brain scans revealed clear differences, as reported in a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬, 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬, 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐝.
👉 According to Daniela Schiller, a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and one of the authors of the study, what emerges is that 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. She pointed out that in therapy Doctors on often try to help people organize their memory so they can perceive it as distant from the present.
𝐓𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: 10.1038/s41593-023-01483-5
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