Topic: Trauma memory

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) severely deteriorates the quality of life of an increasing number of people. Fortunately, the majority of trauma-exposed individuals recovers successfully and shows resilience to these negative consequences of trauma. Understanding the neural underpinnings of trauma resilience versus susceptibility might be key to improve PTSD prevention and treatment. Maladaptive, intrusive trauma memories are a core symptom of PTSD. These memories are characterized by poor contextualization, suggesting impaired hippocampal recruitment in the trauma memory trace. This may