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How Estrogen in the Brain Impacts Stress and Trauma Response

For some people, a single traumatic event like a shooting, a natural disaster or a violent assault, can leave an imprint that lingers long after the immediate danger has passed. Memories of that event may return with unusual intensity, shaping mood, behavior, and mental health in ways that are difficult to predict. Others exposed to similar trauma recover without developing lasting memory problems or trauma-related symptoms. Why those outcomes diverge is a central question in stress and trauma research. Clinicians have long observed that severe acute stress can permanently alter memory for some people but not others, and that women face roughly twice the lifetime risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Recent research from the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the University of California-Irvine suggests that part of the answer may lie in the brain's biological state at the precise moment trauma occurs.

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