Contributed by Pamela Mason
A soldier returning from serving in a war zone. Someone taken hostage. We all understand how these kinds of ‘out of the ordinary’ experiences may negatively affect someone.
Recent advances in neuro-imaging have furthered our understanding of basic brain-behaviour relationships, including shedding light on how we process and encode traumatic events.
However, research has demonstrated that a variety of common, everyday life experiences also can have a powerfully negative influence – an influence that is often pervasively subtle.