![Multigenerational Hoarding an Enormous Stress on Families](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2023/11/angel-balashev-rMjiFI2nyw8-unsplash-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Hoarding is often mocked, stigmatized, and used as entertainment in shows like Hoarders, on the Art and Entertainment Network. Previously regarded as a form of…
![What Can a Lizard Tell Us About Human Mental Health?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/03/lizard-470x140.jpg?x81652)
A new study on lizards has found that, when exposed to stress, their responses can be passed down genetically. Scientists now believe there may be…
![The Making of a Murderer](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/12/ANFeature-470x140.png?x81652)
In 1993, when Robert Thompson and Jon Venables from Liverpool, England were both 10 years of age, they killed a two-year-old boy. Thompson and Venables…
![A Blood Test to Diagnose Depression?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/05/Feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern believe it may be possible to diagnose depression using a blood test. According to Eva Redei,…
![Forgetting PTSD: How Genes Affect Memory](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/02/13752f52880679ec1391798400-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Memory can be a double edged sword. It holds our identities, our relationships, our histories. But when memory holds our most unspeakable stories, it can…