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A new University of Manchester and Edinburgh study published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity has found that ...

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When we talk about trauma, we often mention the three well-known responses: fight, flight or freeze. It’s the idea that everyone has an instinctive survival mechanism to confront (fight), escape ...