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Pseudofracture: An Acute Peripheral Tissue Trauma Model
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2011
Pseudofracture, a reproducible murine model of sterile musculoskeletal trauma, allows for evaluation of late term post-traumatic immune responses. This article describes the procedural execution of the model step by step, including the potential for experimental model combinations to permit study of multiple trauma.
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Acute Brain Trauma in Mice Followed By Longitudinal Two-photon Imaging
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2014
Acute brain trauma is a severe injury that has no adequate treatment to date. Multiphoton microscopy allows studying longitudinally the process of acute brain trauma development and probing therapeutical strategies in rodents. Two models of acute brain trauma studied with in vivo two-photon imaging of brain are demonstrated in this protocol.
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Direct Mouse Trauma/Burn Model of Heterotopic Ossification
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2015
An Achilles tenotomy and burn injury model of heterotopic ossification allows for the reliable study of trauma induced ectopic bone formation without the application of exogenous factors.
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Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) Exam: Image Acquisition
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2023
The Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) exam is a diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound examination used to screen for the presence of free fluid in the pericardium and peritoneum. Indications, techniques, and pitfalls of the procedure are discussed in this article.
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Use of a Psychophysiological Script-driven Imagery Experiment to Study Trauma-related Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder
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2018
We present a protocol of personalized script-driven trauma-related imagery and clinical assessments within a comparison design for investigating peritraumatic dissociation (PD), psychophysiological reactions, i.e. heart rate (HR) and skin conductance (SC), and psychological features of often severely traumatized individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
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The sympathetic nervous system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis contribute different but coordinated components to trauma response. Their activation can prepare the body for immediate threat while also altering emotional and cognitive functioning. Considering both systems helps psychology connect physiological arousal with changes in attention, memory, and behavior rather than treating these reactions as separate processes.
Fight, flight, freeze, and shutdown represent different patterns of responding to overwhelming threat. These patterns help explain why trauma-related behavior may include action, escape, immobility, or marked disengagement. In psychological assessment, identifying the pattern and its associated context can clarify how the person responded during or after the event without assuming that one response is universal.
Changes in attention and memory are important because trauma response can affect how experiences are processed and later recalled. Emotional reactions and behavioral changes may occur alongside intrusive memories, avoidance, or heightened arousal. Examining these domains together gives psychologists a broader picture of acute stress or post-traumatic stress symptoms and their effects on functioning.
Assessment focuses on patterns such as avoidance, intrusive memories, and heightened arousal, while considering the wider psychological and physiological response. This approach supports evaluation of acute stress and post-traumatic stress symptoms without reducing the person’s experience to a single reaction. The resulting picture can help organize clinical understanding and inform trauma-focused care.
Trauma-focused interventions are informed by understanding how threat-related activation influences emotion, attention, memory, and behavior. Safer clinical communication is equally important because the framework encourages practitioners to interpret reactions within the context of distress rather than respond judgmentally. Together, these applications support more appropriate engagement with people experiencing acute or longer-lasting trauma-related symptoms.
In research, trauma response provides a framework for examining why outcomes differ across people and over time. Investigators can consider recovery, coping, resilience, and other factors that shape whether symptoms remain acute or become associated with longer-term difficulties. This perspective links immediate reactions with broader questions about adaptation, symptom persistence, and psychological outcomes.