@thebalelab.bsky.social 🛑 Dr. Tracy Bale delivers a powerful wake-up call: If we truly love our communities, we must invest in the science of trauma.

#MentalHealthAdvocacy #AndNowLove #TraumaResearch

Childhood trauma scores fail to predict violent misconduct in juvenile detention A new study reveals that while childhood trauma leads youth into the justice system, it does not predict violent misconduct during incarceration. Instead, mental health history and gang affiliation are stronger indicators of behavior behind bars.

Childhood trauma scores fail to predict violent misconduct in juvenile detention #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #JuvenileJustice #TraumaResearch

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#ChildProtection #Victimology #TraumaResearch #JuvenileJustice #SpecialIssue #MDPI #ChildrenJournal #AcademicPublishing #CallForPapers #mdpichildren

Shame-based systems don’t always self-correct through insight. When visibility is experienced as judgment, the Audience shifts into an Army, and behavior changes. #DevelopmentalPsychology #TraumaResearch

✨ ISTSS Member Spotlight: Miranda Olff, PhD ✨
A member for 25 years, Dr. Olff reflects on how ISTSS shaped her career and her passion for global collaboration through the Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress.
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#ISTSS #TraumaResearch

We just launched our new study (my 1st at Duke @dukepsychiatry.bsky.social 🎉)! The project aims to understand how socioenvironmental and daily stress influence risk for PTSD after trauma. 🧠 #Neuroscience #TraumaResearch

Child sexual abuse versus adult sexual assault: A review of psychological and neurobiological sequelae - PubMed Sexual trauma (ST) occurs with alarming frequency in the United States (U.S.) in the form of both childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and adulthood sexual assault (ASA). It is well-established that the effects of ST are pervasive, and that ST can be a risk factor for the development of several psychiatric …

At our BEES Lab journal club today, Clinical Research Specialist Grace Rowland shared 3 papers on the psychological & neurobiological effects of sexual trauma — including her recent review with @nateurneuro.bsky.social: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39006552/
🧠📚 #JournalClub #Neuroscience #TraumaResearch

Human Blueprints (@cristinagherghel) What if the very condition lauded as a shield against trauma is, in fact, a cage that magnifies it? My research dismantles the myth that aphantasia—the inability to create mental imagery—offers prote...

My research dismantles the myth that aphantasia—the inability to create mental imagery—offers protection from the wounds of abuse.
• Flashbacks are the mind reliving the past.
• Fleshbacks are the body never stopping its presentation of agony.
#Aphantasia #TraumaResearch #CPTSD #MentalHealth

🌍 Welcome to ISTSS!

We’re excited to welcome our new & returning members to the global community advancing trauma research, prevention & care.

Together, we make a difference. 💪

#ISTSS #TraumaResearch #TraumaInformedCare #MentalHealth

UT Faculty Awarded TRC4 Grants to Advance Groundbreaking Trauma Research The Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative (TRC4) has awarded grants to four UT researchers to dramatically improve the chances of survival from trauma and its after effects — in the b...

UT Neuroscience Chair Robert Messing is 1 of 4 faculty to receive TRC4 grants for groundbreaking trauma research — for working on a way to treat chronic pain from nerve damage with a new, non-opioid medication strategy.

#TexasScience #TraumaResearch
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Examining associations of mindfulness with early-life trauma and risky health behaviors using a network analysis approach in a sample of U.S. college students Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (JCBS)Volume 37, July 2025

How are mindfulness, early-life trauma, & risky health behaviors connected in college students? Findings suggest targeted mindfulness practices may help buffer the effects of early trauma & reduce health risks in young adults

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#ACBS #JCBS #TraumaResearch

We’re excited to welcome our new and returning members to the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. 💙

Your passion and expertise strengthen our global community as we work together to advance knowledge and support healing in the field of traumatic stress.

#ISTSS #TraumaResearch

Your Ancestors Still Live in Your DNA: The Science of Inherited Trauma Dawson Church, PhD, reveals how epigenetics proves trauma is passed down — and how you can stop the cycle.

Your Ancestors Still Live in Your DNA: The Science of Inherited Trauma

Dawson Church, PhD, reveals how epigenetics proves trauma is passed down and how you can stop the cycle.

#Epigenetics
#TraumaResearch
#ancestralhealing
#generationalhealing
#TraumaRecovery
#DidYouKnow
#mindblown
#changethestory

🎉 Welcome to our new & returning ISTSS members!
We’re so glad you’re here. Together, we’re advancing the field of traumatic stress through global collaboration, research & shared purpose.
#WelcomeToISTSS #TraumaResearch

We continue with Professor Isabelle M. Mansuy from the University and ETH Zürich, Switzerland and her presentation on "Epigenetic inheritance: How traumatic experiences in early life can affect descendants via the germline"
#ESCAPResearchAcademy
#ESCAP2025 #traumaresearch

Our team is currently presenting data from the WHiTE study at the EFORT Congress 2025. Great work by Matt, En Lin, Alex, and Amulya showcasing our findings on an international stage! #EFORT2025 #WHiTEstudy #TraumaResearch #OrthoScience #teamwork

Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews Police investigators, immigration officials, and other investigative interviewers often interview individuals from different cultural backgrounds about potentially traumatising events. Much of the ...

#traumaresearch #resilienceresearch

FINDINGS:
☑️negative experiences differ across cultures
☑️the western trauma model is limited
☑️all of this creates barriers in investigative interviews

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Application of the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Model for Predicting the Abbreviated Injury Scale in Patients with Trauma: Algorithm Development and Validation Study Background: Deaths related to physical trauma impose a heavy burden on society, and the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) is an important tool for injury research. AIS covers injuries to various parts of the human body and scores them based on the severity of the injury. Due to the complexity of human body structure and the diversity of injury types, accurately identifying and classifying each type of injury based on its corresponding AIS code level is highly challenging. In practical applications, the complex coding rules of AIS require experts to classify injuries by reviewing patient medical records, which inevitably increases the difficulty and time cost of evaluation, and also puts higher demands on the workload of information collection and processing. Objective: we aimed to use advanced deep learning techniques to predict AIS codes based on easily accessible diagnostic information of patients, to improve the accuracy of trauma assessment. Methods: We used a trauma patient dataset (n=26810) collected by Chongqing Daping Hospital between October 2013 and June 2024. We mainly selected the patient's diagnostic information, place of injury, cause of injury, chief complaints, present illness history, injury locations, and injury types as the key feature inputs. We employed the robustly optimized BERT pre-training method to embed these features, thus constructing our BERT model. This model is designed to predict AIS codes and comprehensively evaluate their performance through 5-fold cross-validation. In addition, we compared the BERT model with previous investigation and current mainstream machine learning methods, to validate BERT model advantages in prediction tasks. Results: The BERT model proposed in this paper performs significantly better than the comparison model on independent test datasets, with an accuracy of 0.8971, which surpassed the previous study by 10 percentage points. In addition, the AUC value of the BERT model is 0.9970, and the F1 score is 0.8434. Among all the compared machine learning methods, the decision tree method achieved excellent performance in accuracy, AUC, and F1 metrics, with values of 0.8506, 0.9945, and 0.7049, respectively. These results indicate that our model has high generalization ability and prediction accuracy. Conclusions: The BERT model we proposed is mainly based on diagnostic information to predict AIS codes, and its prediction accuracy is superior to previous investigation and current mainstream machine learning methods. However, validation in external databases is needed.

JMIR Formative Res: Application of the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Model for Predicting the Abbreviated Injury Scale in Patients with Trauma: Algorithm Development and Validation Study #TraumaResearch #AIinHealthcare #InjurySeverity #DataScience #MachineLearning

📢 Save the date!
Join us for a Lunchtime Seminar with Prof. Rachel Langevin
"Breaking the Cycle: Insights and Future Directions in Child Maltreatment Research"

🗓️Tue, 13 May
🕛12:00
📍Regina Mundi, Room C-0.101

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#LunchtimeSeminar #TraumaResearch #ClinicalPsychology

The neurobiology of trauma: How childhood adversity alters brain development In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the country’s birth rate. This led to the widespread abandonment of children, who ended up in orphanages in appalling...

The neurobiology of trauma: How childhood adversity alters brain development #Science #HealthandMedicine #Neurobiology #TraumaResearch #ChildDevelopment

🎧 New Podcast Alert!

Just released: the latest episode of the Pre-Hospital Care Podcast dives into our study on Resuscitative Thoracotomy (RT) for Traumatic Cardiac Arrest (TCA).

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#PreHospitalCare #TraumaResearch

Thank you everyone who supported me in my search regarding Dr. Judith Herman. Things are moving forward, and I’m grateful for all the encouragement. 🙏 #TraumaResearch #JudithHerman

Does anyone have contact information or know how to reach Dr. Judith Herman? I'm working on a flashback support audio project inspired by her book Trauma and Recovery, and I deeply value her insight. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🙏 #TraumaResearch #JudithHerman

Knowledge translation is the final, essential step in research.

When it’s done right, it brings science off the page and into practice—where it saves lives.

#KnowledgeTranslation #PreHospitalCare #TraumaResearch #ResuscitativeThoracotomy

These findings support the expanding role of HEMS in equitable, timely care for trauma patients. 🚁 This study reaffirms the vital contribution of pre-hospital teams in transforming outcomes for the most severely injured. #TraumaResearch #PreHospitalCare 7/7

Trauma patients often need rapid sequence induction (RSI) of anaesthesia to secure their airway. Delays can lead to worse outcomes, but only 25% of UK trauma patients meet the 45-minute guideline for RSI. Our research aimed to explore this problem. #TraumaResearch 2/7

Curating a #traumaresearch and #resilienceresearch feed for Bluesky!

Any clinicians or researchers working in the field of psychotrauma, feel free to use 😊

And drop your name below so we know how to follow on here ⤵️

I‘m really looking forward to the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies starting tomorrow in Los Angeles #ISTSS #traumaresearch #PTSD