News tagged with flashbacks
Sleep preserves and enhances unpleasant emotional memories
A recent study by sleep researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first to suggest that a person's emotional response after witnessing an unsettling picture or traumatic event is greatly ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Chronic post-traumatic stress disorder in women linked to history of rape, child abuse
A Florida State University clinical psychologist has identified factors that could cause some women with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to have chronic, persistent symptoms while others recover naturally over time.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Greater support is needed to tackle the serious emotional consequences of whistleblowing
Whistleblowing incidents can have a serious, long-term impact on people's emotional well-being and their colleagues and employers have a responsibility to provide them with the support they need, according to a study in the ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Tetris flashback reduction effect 'not common to all games'
The computer game Tetris may have a special ability to reduce flashbacks after viewing traumatic images not shared by other types of computer game, Oxford University scientists have discovered in a series ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Flashing glasses may help PTSD sufferers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychologists in the UK propose using spectacles with flashing lights at each side to identify people likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and possibly to treat them.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Fusion-io Deliveries The Worlds Fastest SSD
(Physorg.com) -- Fusion-io, a leader in high-performance I/O solutions, announced their new ioDrive Duo. The new ioDrive Duo is one of the fastest and most innovative server-based solid-state storage solutions. ...
Mar 12, 2009 |
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'Tetris' may help reduce flashbacks to traumatic events
(PhysOrg.com) -- Playing ‘Tetris’ after traumatic events could reduce the flashbacks experienced in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), preliminary research by Oxford University psychologists suggests.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 07, 2009 |
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