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Chris R. Brewin is an emeritus professor of clinical psychology at University College London. He studies post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma and memory.

This framework was then tested against three different parsing strategies, or linguistic models that illustrate how the brain ...

Bernice Andrews is an emeritus professor of psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. She studies memory, adverse life experiences, post-traumatic stress disorder and research methodology.

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