Darcia Narvaez, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, recently wrote in Psychology Today how excessive crying out could be dangerous for children, leading to a lifetime of harm. In trauma research, foraging patterns are used to study stress responses by replicating different attachment models. A research team led by Read more…
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Letting your Child “Cry it out”: A big No-No according to Scientific Studies
Tuesday, March 27th, 2018Acute Stress Disorder
Sunday, August 25th, 2013The Twin-Tower attacks on 9/11 directly exposed thousands of New York residents to the horror of a near-death experience. This was associated with a sense of dread and impending doom, and accompanied by the witnessing of mayhem, and collective chaos. This is a report of a victim with Acute Stress Disorder.
What Happens to the Brain in PTSD?
Monday, July 8th, 2013In 1937, James Papez proposed in his now-classic article, based on his anatomical research, “emotions have an anatomical mechanism and location in the brain” (“A Proposed Mechanism of Emotion.” Arch. Neurol. Psychiatry (1937): 38). Dr. MacLean, the leading authority in limbic neurology, in general championed Papez`s findings. He insisted that in the process of evolution Read more…