Your Brain on Trauma

Why Trauma Looks Different in Different Minds

Andrew Hill, PhD

Peak Brain Press

Coming August 12, 2026

Your Brain
on Trauma

Why Trauma Looks Different in Different Minds

Trauma is not one wound and it does not create one brain. Trauma changes the regulation of critical cortical resources. The work of recovery is restoring flexible access to the brain resources trauma recruited for survival.

Coming August 12, 2026

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This book is for you if:

You've experienced trauma and want to understand what it did to your brain
You're a clinician using or considering neurofeedback for trauma
You want the neuroscience without the oversimplification
You want to understand recovery as restoring flexible access to brain resources, not just processing memories

From the author

25,000+

Brain maps analyzed

25

Years clinical practice

UCLA

PhD Cognitive Neuroscience

482

Citations in working bibliography

Andrew Hill, PhD is a cognitive neuroscientist with 25 years studying attention, regulation, and brain mapping. Founder of Peak Brain Institute. Author of Gifted & Tortured.