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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"traumatic memory"”.
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The Effect of Rapamycin Paired with Traumatic Memory Activation on Cognitive Performance in Veterans Diagnosed with PTSD
BACKGROUND: Many individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experience cognitive impairment in addition to the characteristic psychological symptoms. Animal studies have shown that rapamycin, a protein synthesis inhibitor that targets the protein kinase mTOR, can prevent the …
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TOUCHING THE CENTER THAT BURNS: AN EXORCISM
… to explore the relationship between language, traumatic memory, and identity. Through a cross-genre creative style of writing and scholarship, the writer engages with trauma theory, performative language theory, psychoanalysis, and literature in order to illuminate how language, in its various …
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Everything I am not: Discovering who I am
… when the black African woman works to transcend traumatic memory to renew and heal. I suggest that traumatic memory be likened to a scar or a wound on the body. I, a contemporary black South African woman, seek to heal from the wound created by dominant structures of oppression such as slavery, …
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How To Provide Effective Pain Management After Cardiac Surgery In The Geriatric Patient
… patients reported pain as the most common traumatic memory of their ICU stay. Pain is an important stressor in critical care settings. The lack of effective postoperative pain management impedes early mobilization and sufficient sleep, leads to postoperative complications and higher costs, …
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"The Ghost of That Ineluctable Past": Trauma and Memory in John Banville's Frames Trilogy
… a series of interconnected novels haunted by the memory of a singular, traumatic event: the senseless murder of an innocent woman at the hands of the Trilogy’s first-person narrator. This thesis project examines the central role that the corresponding themes of trauma and memory play within these …
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THE ROLE OF SLEEP IN THE ENHANCEMENT AND IMPEDANCE OF EPISODIC EMOTIONAL MEMORIES
… arousing memories, and whether an emotional memory can be blocked with a single night of sleep deprivation. Using a modified version of a slide show varying in emotionality with respect to the narrative (participants' acting as either a mother or father experiencing the tragic death of their …
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Saying It Through The Maternal Body: understanding maternal subjectivity through art practice
… the inquiry to include kibbutz childhood memory, in general, and bodily memories, in particular. This has led to revealing a childhood trauma. It was established that fragmentation, invisibility and questions of boundaries are rooted in trauma. Trauma has been further explored, to be …
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Temporal representation in narratives of forced removals : a narrative analysis of life story texts
… and lead into a consideration of theories of memory and time. I focus particularly on aspects of representation of time in narrative and explore the nature of traumatic memory in relation to this. In chapter four, my analysis draws attention to the different ways in which narrators make sense …
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The role of memory for trauma in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder following traumatic brain injury and research portfolio
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been reported following traumatic brain injury (TBI), even when TBI leads to amnesia for the traumatic event. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between memory for the event (as assessed by the Traumatic Memory Inventory) and reporting of PTSD …
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Enduring Belief: Performance, Trauma, Religion
… a site of both theological significance and traumatic memory. I examine the connections among the forms of performance art, bodily worship practices, and traumatic experience in the work of three contemporary U.S. performance artists with devout religious backgrounds. Born between the1940s …
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Reframing as Reclamation: Trauma Theory, African Spiritualism, and Ecocriticism in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
… such as Kathleen Brogan, who clarifies between traumatic memory and narrative memory, as well as Gabriele Schwab, who observes transgenerational effects in both survivors and perpetrators of trauma. In the concluding section, I identify the way Ward navigates these interwoven parts in a world …
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Invisible landscapes : landscape, memory and time in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
… Sebald's use of landscape and his emphasis on memory, there is very little research to date that has taken a phenomenological approach to Sebald's texts. There are specific affinities, for example, between the musings of the protagonist and the narrator of Sebald's Austerlitz and …
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SCREENING THE APOCALYPSE: ZOMBIES, VISUAL ART AND THE GROTESQUE IN THE AFTERMATH OF SOCIAL TRAUMA
… the zombie’s status and function as an artistic traumatic grotesque within the 2000s. Coined as a grotesque “stream” by art historian Frances S. Connelly, the traumatic grotesque interrupts established visual norms by presenting contemporary social anxieties in monstrous form. Though a …
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Modeling the hippocampus : finely controlled memory storage using spiking neurons
… of personal memories and life events. As such traumatic memories and the consequent symptoms of post-traumatic stress are thought to be stored or at least processedin the hippocampus. While a fundamental understanding of a traumatic memory is still elusive, studying the physiology and …
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Tracing the Establishment of Political Society: Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Greek Literature
This thesis explores the connection between memory and the formation of political society in ancient Greek literature. It is grounded in the notion that memory is a political process: its narratives are shaped by the social and political groups to which we belong. In turn, what and how we remember …
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In and Out of Memory: Exploring the Tension Between Remembering and Forgetting When Recalling 9/11, a Traumatic Event
In and out of memory: exploring the tension between remembering and forgetting when recalling 9/11, a traumatic event. My research is an unravelling of a traumatic memory to describe, understand and answer questions about the 'trauma body.' In my research, I put forward the idea that traumatic …
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Through the Fog of History: The Nanjing Massacre through the Lens of Documentary Modes
… shifting patterns shaping the event's collective memory?", this thesis explores two aspects of the Nanjing Massacre documentary films: the historical representation and the construction of the collective memory through these documentaries. By following documentary forms across time, my research …
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From the Ashes of History: Trauma, National Identity and State-Building in India and Israel
… as comprised of competing narrations of memory (including traumatic memory). The identity narratives that constitute these discourses weave together experience and knowledge, bridging the divide between the individual and the social to create the logics of policymaking. The second chapter …
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