The Neurobiology of Trauma – NICABM

How Trauma Overloads the Brain and Takes Away Its Ability to Cope

Bessel van der Kolk, MD Dan Siegel, MD

• The key part of a traumatized brain that gives trauma such enormous power
• The critical factor that allows the brain to successfully cope with a traumatic event
• The brain science underlying neurobiological shut-down

How Trauma Impacts Specific Areas of the Brain (And How This Can Affect Your Treatment)

Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD Bessel van der Kolk, MD Dan Siegel, MD

• How the “survival brain” gets altered after a traumatic experience (and how to look for this in your client)
• Two hormones that leave the brain highly vulnerable when traumatic memories are forming
• What happens in the brain that makes some clients unable to distinguish threat cues from non-threatening stimuli
• The critical part of the brain stem impacted during trauma

How to Prevent Dissociation and Its Negative Influence on Trauma Recovery

Stephen Porges, PhD Pat Ogden, PhD Dan Siegel, MD

• Why dissociation may be driving your client’s trauma deeper into their nervous system
• How to work with dissociation and shift a client’s reaction to trauma
• One strategy to prevent dissociation and retrain a client’s trauma response

Strategies to Foster Powerful Brain Integration After Trauma

Pat Ogden, PhD Dan Siegel, MD

• Two distinct signs that your client might have impaired brain integration from trauma
• How the midbrain holds the key to the freeze response
• What posture reveals about a history of trauma, and how to work with it in the healing process

Epigenetics and the Brain: How Trauma Affects Gene Expression

Dan Siegel, MD

• Why systemic inflammation could be directly linked to how trauma impacts the brain

Here’s What You’ll Get:

Everything is yours to keep forever in your professional library

	Downloadable videos so you can watch at your convenience, on any device
	Audio recordings you can download and listen to at home, in the car, at the gym or wherever you like
	TalkBack Segments to distill key ideas (this is where we “land” the session)
	Next Week in Your Practice sessions to give you concrete strategies to use with patients
	Professionally-formatted transcripts of the sessions, to make review and action simple
	Two downloadable bonus videos to help you work more effectively with trauma