Verbal therapy can stop relief of fear memories in trauma victims

A verbal upgrading technique directed at blocking the consolidation of traumatic recollections could shield against the long term emotional and physical effects of injury, according to new research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King s College London as well as the University of Oxford. Printed in PLOS ONE, this study is the first to analyze whether upgrading a verbal treatment now just used for patients with long-term post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be implemented more broadly to victims of injury before PTSD grows, during a period called the consolidation window . This interval, believed to last around six hours after a distressing occurrence, is when anxiety memories are created and reinforced. The findings could have consequences for the countless millions of individuals who experience a traumatic event in their own life, in addition to the tens of thousands of individuals routinely exposed to injury inside their line of work, incl
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