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Tracey J. Shors, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor in Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology and a member of the Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University. With 150 scientific publications in journals including Nature, Science, PNAS and Nature Neuroscience, her work has been featured in Scientific American, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on NPR and CNN. Dr. Shors recently was awarded the W. Horsley Gantt Medal from the Pavlovian Society for the "noble pursuit of truth." You can find her book "Everyday Trauma" online and at major bookstores.

Dr. Shors' research program studies how our brains -- especially women's brains -- ruminate on trauma-related memories and how this process can ...more

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Everyday Trauma: Remapping the Brain's Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life

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Pastoralia

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Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning

by Frederick F. Schauer

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Why?: What Makes Us Curious

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“The past does not really exist -- except in the brain.”
― Tracey Shors, Everyday Trauma: Remapping the Brain's Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life

tags: brain, exercise, meditation, mental-health, mental-illness, neuron, psychology, ptsd, stress, trauma

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“Leave your front door and back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.”
― Tracey Shors, Everyday Trauma: Remapping the Brain's Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life

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