Traumatic

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEwan McGregor has admitted that he used to show his kids the traumatic toilet scene from Trainspotting “for a laugh”.The Scottish actor was 25 when he starred in Danny Boyle’s 1996 film about a group of friends living in poverty and struggling with addiction in Edinburgh.In one of the film’s most infamous scenes, Ewan’s character is forced to use “the worst toilet in Scotland” and…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Experiencing traumatic events such as natural disasters may have long-term consequences for the academic progress and future food security of youth—a problem researchers said could worsen with the increased frequency of extreme weather events due to climate change. In a study using data from Peru,…

Gary Oldman Shares His Traumatic Teenage Incidents & Says He Would Never Want To Go Back To Those Days (Photo Credit: Bang Showbiz) Gary Oldman found his teenage years “traumatic” because he couldn’t get a girlfriend and struggled with puberty. The 65-year-old actor – who has Alfie, 34, with first wife Lesley Manville, Gulliver, 25, and Charlie, 23, with third wife Donya Diorentino – has no “fond memories” of his adolescence and recalled looking at his own sons at the same stage in their lives and being grateful…

Though the horror genre has a rich history of using monsters as stand-ins for something truly horrifying, scary video games aren’t always so thematically ambitious. There’s a slew of zombie games, for instance, that trade in sharp social commentary for mindless shooting. That trend always leaves me looking for more cerebral horror games, ones that scratch the same itch as 2010’s psychologically unnerving Amnesia: The Dark Descent. So perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that the first horror game that would accomplish…

Jose Palacios could have picked an easier spot to get to in Griffith Park — a place to create his sanctuary — but that wouldn’t have suited him. His life has never been easy.Over the course of several years, Palacios has regularly climbed the steep North Trail that offers a view of the Harding golf course and the area near the back of the old zoo. He has hauled stones and carried tools, seeds, saplings and the burden of his past along winding dirt paths. The day I walked with Palacios, a 70-year-old retiree, I wondered…

A study from Johns Hopkins University found that traumatic brain injuries were the second most common injury among adults treated in U.S. emergency rooms.The three most prevalent leash-related injuries among adults treated in U.S. emergency departments from 2001 to 2020 were fractures of the finger, traumatic brain injury, and sprains or strains of the shoulder.A study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise reports that between 2001 and 2020, traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) ranked as the second most…

And it should He Fucked the Girl Out of Me by Taylor McCue was one of the most impactful games I played last year. Largely a semi-autobiographical narrative game, it covers some extremely heavy topics about trauma and sex work. It’s not entertaining, it’s not meant to be, but it is very important. It’s also getting a physical release for the Toronto Comics Art Festival. I feel like I need this, but paradoxically, I also feel like I shouldn’t have it. As I said, I appreciate He Fucked the Girl Out of Me as an evocative…

Toni Braxton revealed she experienced a “traumatic” health scare.The star sat down with People magazine, sharing details on her life as of late, dealing with systemic lupus erythematosus, lupus’ most common form. The 55-year-old disclosed that she underwent an invasive emergency heart procedure last September after 80 percent of her main heart artery was blocked. The songwriter says she has been hospitalized “more times than I care to admit,” and understands the importance of frequent check health checkups but admitted…

Glenys Oberg. Credit: Frontiers Glenys Oberg is a Ph.D. student and research assistant at the School of Education of the University of Queensland. A former teacher, she focuses in her research on trauma-informed pedagogy and practice. Recently, Oberg and her colleagues Annemaree Carroll and Stephanie Macmahon published a review…

The Linseman Laboratory’s study investigates long-term brain health effects of COVID-19 in individuals with and without traumatic brain injury (TBI). Preliminary findings suggest those with a history of both COVID-19 and TBI experience more severe long COVID symptoms. The study also explores biomarkers in blood samples, indicating that exosomes from these individuals cause inflammation in lab-grown astrocytes. This research could potentially lead to treatments that inhibit the inflammatory pathway.The Linseman Laboratory…