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Dr. Daniela Schiller: Understanding Trauma Through Neuroscience

Dr. Daniela Schiller: Understanding Trauma Through Neuroscience

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Summary
 Trauma can change how memories are formed, stored, and recalled, challenging common assumptions about how survivors should remember and describe their experiences. In this episode, Dr. Daniela Schiller explains the neuroscience behind traumatic memory, why recall can be fragmented, and how research offers hope for changing the emotional impact of trauma.In this episode, Ben, Jennifer, and Dr. Daniela Schiller discuss:The brain’s response to fear, threat, and traumatic experiencesWhy traumatic memories differ from ordinary memoriesWhat neuroscience reveals about survivor behavior in legal settingsMemory reconsolidation and the potential for healingKey Takeaways:[0:12:39] Trauma memories do not follow ordinary expectations of recall — Survivors may remember sensory details vividly while struggling to recall dates, locations, sequences, or peripheral details of an event.[0:15:14] Gaps in traumatic memory should not automatically discredit survivors — Schiller explains that fragmented recall and missing details can be consistent with traumatic memory, and should not automatically be treated as evidence of dishonesty.[0:21:52] Trauma treatment can work with the brain’s capacity for change — Exposure therapy, emotional regulation, and research into memory reconsolidation offer different approaches to reducing trauma responses, though treatments based on reconsolidation remain a work in progress.[0:30:37] Healing can change a memory’s emotional impact without erasing it — The memory remains, but its emotional intensity and the distress associated with recalling it can become more manageable over time. "The fact that you don't remember a date and where it happened, and everything is fragmented, and you actually have like black holes - it's exactly the evidence that something happened." — Dr. Daniela Schiller About Dr. Daniela Schiller: Dr. Daniela Schiller is a Professor in Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research focuses on emotional learning, memory, and social cognition. Her work explores the neural mechanisms of threat learning and traumatic memories, how imagination can modify emotional memories, and how the brain tracks affective states and social relationships. A Fulbright Fellow and Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, Dr. Schiller has received numerous honors, including the Blavatnik Award and the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences.Connect with Dr. Daniela Schiller: Website: https://labs.neuroscience.mssm.edu/project/schiller-lab/Email: daniela.schiller@mssm.eduConnect with Ben Andreozzi: Website: https://www.victimscivilattorneys.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AndreozziandFoote/videosLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/andreozziandfoote/X/Twitter: https://x.com/AndreozziFooteFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AndreozziFoote/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreozziandfoote/Connect with Jennifer Storm:Website: https://jenniferstorm.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackoutgirlauthor/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JenniferStormAuthor/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXAP8AOfFrlRq-DYCLBSYbAAudio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
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