Psychological trauma: Burnt into memory

By Thomas Elbert, M. Schauer. Nature, 2002

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A cut into the soul as a result of a horrifying experience can persist as a crippling disease with its core conceptualized as post-traumatic stress disorder.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Thomas Elbert
2. Iris-Tatjana Kolassa
3. M. Schauer
4. Elisabeth Schauer

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Thomas Elbert
2. Iris-Tatjana Kolassa

Citations in the corpus

• Structural and Functional Neuroplasticity in Relation to Traumatic Stress (2007, background): “…will merge into an indistinct whole, and a fragmentation of autobiographic context memory results: it becomes harder and harder to associate specific coldmemorieswith each traumatic experience (e.g., specific times, dates, locations and situation-specific information; cf. Elbert & Schauer, 2002).”
• The influence of Organized Violence and Terror on Brain and Mind : a Co-Constructive Perspective (2006, background): “In an attempt to understand the consequences of these atrocities on brain and mind (Elbert & Schauer, 2002; Neuner, 2003), we have studied refugees in Germany and war victims in crises regions such as the Balkans (Neuner et al., 2002), the West Nile (Neuner et al., 2004a,b; Karunakara et al.,…”
• The Psychological Impact of Child Soldiering (2010, background): “During a traumatic event, perceptual and emotional features of the situation are 'burnt' into memory (Elbert & Schauer, 2002), forming the nucleus of a neural network that is associated with the traumatic event.”
• Dissociation Following Traumatic Stress Etiology and Treatment (2010, background): “Repeated experience of traumatic stress forms a fear network (see Figure 2) that can become pathologically detached from contextual cues such as time and location of the danger, a condition, which manifests itself as PTSD (Brewin, 2001; Elbert & Schauer, 2002; Schauer et al., 2005).”