Chapter
The Power of Talking About Trauma
42:55 - 55:57 (13:02)
Despite the anxiety response that can occur when individuals recount their traumatic experiences, a detailed recounting is essential for positive effects of therapy. Mechanistic understanding of the fear circuits can provide treatments that can alleviate anxiety and pain relief.
Clips
This podcast episode discusses the science behind our threat response, including the activation of the NMDA receptor and NLTP, and how it varies between individuals.
42:55 - 46:13 (03:18)
Summary
This podcast episode discusses the science behind our threat response, including the activation of the NMDA receptor and NLTP, and how it varies between individuals.
ChapterThe Power of Talking About Trauma
EpisodeErasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear
PodcastHuberman Lab
Treatments such as SSRIs and benzodiazepines have been known to weaken connections in the brain that associate people, places, or things with a negative experience.
46:13 - 49:27 (03:13)
Summary
Treatments such as SSRIs and benzodiazepines have been known to weaken connections in the brain that associate people, places, or things with a negative experience. In order to eliminate traumas and extinguish fears, the process must involve attaching a new positive experience to that previously negative event.
ChapterThe Power of Talking About Trauma
EpisodeErasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear
PodcastHuberman Lab
A detailed recounting of traumatic events is essential in order to get positive effects of prolonged exposure, cognitive processing and cognitive behavioral therapy, according to experts in clinical psychology, psychiatry and biological fears.
49:27 - 55:57 (06:30)
Summary
A detailed recounting of traumatic events is essential in order to get positive effects of prolonged exposure, cognitive processing and cognitive behavioral therapy, according to experts in clinical psychology, psychiatry and biological fears. The first time traumatic events are recounted in detail can result in a strong physiological anxiety response, but this is necessary to understand the fear circuits and connections to the dopamine and anxiety systems in the body.