Can Trauma Disrupt the Brain’s Internal Clock?
A 2026 study fitted wearable sensors to 211 survivors of a mass-trauma event and 113 comparison participants, then followed them for the better part of a year. The signal was not how disturbed their sleep was on average.
Women’s Trauma and Sleep: What a Study of Nearly 28,000 Women Found
A sleep disorder first described in military patients has now been measured across a whole country. In a cohort of 27,938 Icelandic women, 6.9% reported it in the past month.
How Trauma Changes the Brain’s Communication Networks
Trauma is not stored as a bad memory. It changes how brain regions communicate — amygdala, prefrontal cortex and hippocampus — and that circuit-level change explains why insight alone rarely resolves it.
How the Brain Learns to Let Go
Holding onto painful memories, grudges, and anxiety isn’t a choice — it’s what an unregulated nervous system does automatically. Here’s the neuroscience of release, and how to support it.
The Brain’s Ability to Adapt After Adversity
Post-traumatic growth is real — but it’s not automatic. Understanding how the brain reorganizes after adversity — and what it needs to do so successfully — is the foundation of effective recovery.
When Trauma Lives in the Body
Trauma doesn’t just live in memories — it is encoded in the nervous system and expressed through the body. Understanding somatic trauma changes how we approach healing.