Tag: psychological trauma

The most recent research conducted by my team reveals that psychological trauma caused by catastrophic weather and climatic disasters, such as wildfires, can have long-lasting consequences on survivors' brains, cognitive functioning, and perception of distractions. Extreme heat, storm damage, and life-threatening events such as wildfires are some of the ways that climate change is increasingly affecting people around the world. Climate Change's Link To Psychological Trauma More than six months after the 2018 fire that destroyed the town of Paradise, California, my colleagues and I discovered that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety,...