Climate change trauma has real impacts on cognition and the brain, wildfire survivors study shows
- Written by Jyoti Mishra, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego
The 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people and destroyed 20,000 buildings in and around Paradise, Calif.Marcus Yam /Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Psychological trauma from extreme weather and climate events, such as wildfires, can have long-term impacts on survivors’...




