Guest Post by Chris Forsythe, Sandia National Laboratories Being an applied neuroscientist, I was stunned as I skimmed my daughter’s 7th grade life science textbook and found that only 8 out of 400 pages discussed the nervous system. This amounted to one section of one chapter. In contrast, while genetics are certainly important, there were […]
The Neuroscience of Trauma from Sexual Assault
Guest Post by Kathryn Gigler, Northwestern University “I believe that you believe something happened to you.” The young woman repeated the detective’s statement to me again. It had been the detective’s response to her question of whether he believed her account of the brutal sexual assault she had experienced the past weekend. As a counselor […]