Drs. Lauren A. M. Lebois, Milissa Kaufman, and colleagues find that brain imaging analyses can uncover changes in functional connections between brain regions linked to an individual’s dissociative symptoms following trauma.
Being traumatized can cause what are known as dissociative symptoms—such as experiencing amnesia, an out-of-body experience, feeling emotionally numb—which may help people cope. Experiencing these symptoms intensely or for a long time, however, can negatively impact an individual’s ability to...
Lauren A.M. Lebois, PhD, Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, and colleagues discover that MRI boosted by machine learning reveals changes in brains of women with PTSD.
K awards, which are part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Career Development Awards, support the next generation of scientists focused on addressing the country’s most pressing biomedical challenges. These awards serve to provide both salary and research for intensive, focused,...
Drs. Milissa Kaufman and Lauren A.M. Lebois described how trauma affects the brain.
Through clinical practice and neuroimaging studies, McLean Hospital’s Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, and Lauren A.M. Lebois, PhD, are revealing the clinical, cognitive, and neurobiological underpinnings of the effect of trauma on the brain, specifically in women, including long-misunderstood forms of...
Lauren A. M. Lebois, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist focusing on the biomarkers of trauma-spectrum disorders as an assistant neuroscientist in the laboratory of Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD. She is also the director of neuroimaging for the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program led by...
