292K views · 719 reactions | Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy helps the brain process traumatic memories so that they feel less intense and disturbing. Hear how EMDR helped these Veterans find relief: https://www.maketheconnection.net/stories/872/ | Make the Connection | Facebook

155K views · 10K reactions | Can you relate? Do you have memories that you try your best to push down, but they keep coming up for you when you don’t want them to. When those memories are from traumatic events, that can cause an overwhelming level of distress that is hard to bring back down. This video is a quick summary of a metaphor that I have often used to help describe how working through painful memories in trauma therapy can help. | Dr Julie | Facebook

A study from the Yale School of Medicine demonstrated different brain activation when participants listened to narrations of traumatic memory: the hippocampus, which is involved in contextualization and memory consolidation was not active when listening to narrations of their traumatic memories like it was when listening to sad memories. However, the posterior cingulate cortex was online during audio exposure to trauma, indicating that the brain was in a present state of processing and not able