Schools should be ideal places for children who have faced trauma to process their experiences. Yet too often, school systems ...

PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of a life-threatening event, such as physical assault, warfare or imprisonment. For inmates, the prison environment ...

Trauma can affect anyone, from those who were at the scene to journalists. Multiple shootings in recent days have renewed attention on gun violence in the United States as at least 10 people in ...

It is essential to equip educators, employers, and health care professionals with the skills to reduce stigma and recognize ...

Mental disorders like depression and anxiety are characterized by a variety of different symptoms, and individuals receiving the same diagnosis may experience different combinations of those symptoms.

New research links inflammation to mental health symptoms. Personalized care using brain and immune data could improve ...

Winter amplifies PTSD symptoms through biology, darkness and isolation that hits veterans hard. Your brain needs sunlight to ...

Generational trauma passes down through families by biological, environmental, psychological, and social means. You may experience epigenetic changes, which affect gene expression linked to anxiety ...

An new article published in Social Work in Mental Health outlines the persistent systemic and structural social injustices ...

Children who experience traumatic events may show subtle but measurable differences in how their brains process attention and control impulses, according to a new study published in Neuropsychologia.