Unruly Memory – with Memory Experts: Vin Walsh, Julia Shaw and Jennifer Wild
Ri Science Podcast
The Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
For most people, the memories that plague them fade over time. But for the unfortunate few, they go on to suffer an extreme stress response in response to very traumatic memories. So post-traumatic stress disorder is a disorder of memory in my mind. The first cluster of symptoms are memory working and overdrive. When people have flashbacks, it actually feels like the trauma is happening all over again. And these memory symptoms drive the next set of symptoms, which are the avoidance symptoms.
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