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Healing Trauma at the Speed of Science

We are a group of neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and researchers that have come together to provide state of the art trauma support for the survivors of violence.

A le***an bar relaxed its mask rule one night a week. Its own community accused the owners of eugenics and killing disab...
09/25/2026

A le***an bar relaxed its mask rule one night a week. Its own community accused the owners of eugenics and killing disabled people. Then things got crazier.
The story became the Boston Globe’s best-performing story of the year.
It’s easy to laugh at this. But the absurdity reveals a psychological pattern I’ve been watching across very different radical movements: tiny disagreements become moral storms, counter-evidence stops changing beliefs, and groups begin eating their own.
Dr. Orli Peter calls that last part moral cannibalism.
Read more: https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/392573/what-a-mask-fight-at-a-le***an-bar-has-to-do-with-antizionism/

It’s incredibly rewarding for Dr. Orli Peter, Founder of Israel Healing Initiative, to see the neuropsychological model ...
07/18/2026

It’s incredibly rewarding for Dr. Orli Peter, Founder of Israel Healing Initiative, to see the neuropsychological model she developed being used to help explain what sustained, global digital propaganda may be doing to our brains.
This is exactly why she developed it: to give people a way to recognize the psychological mechanisms shaping public perception before they’re swept up in them.
Earlier this month, Dr. Peter presented the full model at the Contemporary Antisemitism Conference at the University of Haifa, where the accompanying paper lays out the research supporting the complete framework. This article, written by Elizabeth Statmore, the 2024 San Francisco Democratic Party Educator of the Year, applies one aspect of that framework, kindled brains and moral intoxication, to recent events in San Francisco politics.

Read the complete article here: https://thevoicesf.org/there-is-a-crack-in-everything/

07/03/2026

At Israel Healing Initiative, we've spent years studying how trauma changes the brain. One question has become increasingly difficult to ignore: Could today's propaganda be pushing healthy brains into a state that resembles one aspect of trauma?

In this conversation with award-winning former CNN and NPR journalist Josh Levs, Dr. Orli Peter explores the possibility that today's relentless stream of curated, emotionally intense imagery, amplified through bots, algorithms, and activists, may be making our brains more easily kindled. That could lower our threshold for emotional activation, fuel compulsive threat scanning, and interfere with error updating.

This proposed model grew out of Dr. Peter's decades of clinical qEEG observations together with the field's research on brain kindling.

We're thrilled to share this conversation and would love to hear your thoughts.

Listen here:
https://joshlevs.com/episode-115-kindled-brains/

What happens when the same brain mechanisms involved in trauma are repeatedly activated by propaganda?For almost 3 years...
06/18/2026

What happens when the same brain mechanisms involved in trauma are repeatedly activated by propaganda?

For almost 3 years, while treating trauma survivors across Israel, the Israel Healing Initiative’s Director, Dr. Orli Peter, began recognizing striking parallels between the brain’s response to trauma and its response to emotionally-intense, sustained propaganda. In both cases, chronic activation of emotional brain networks can reduce cognitive flexibility, impair critical thinking, and make people more resistant to new evidence.

These insights became the focus of a recent conversation with award-winning broadcaster, author, speaker, and former CNN journalist Josh Levs, who has dedicated this stage of his career to advancing media accountability, intellectual honesty, and truth-seeking.

Together, they explored the neuroscience of why modern anti-Zionist propaganda has been so effective, why even highly intelligent people can become resistant to evidence, and how people can begin to de-propagandize themselves.

The 30-minute interview will be released next week. We look forward to sharing it with you.

In recent weeks, antisemitic terror in London has sharply escalated: synagogues firebombed, Jewish ambulances attacked, ...
05/07/2026

In recent weeks, antisemitic terror in London has sharply escalated: synagogues firebombed, Jewish ambulances attacked, escalating street violence, and now the attempted throat-slitting of two Jews in Golders Green after a man from Somalia reportedly went on a rampage searching for Jews to kill.

In response to the growing trauma and fear affecting the Jewish community, Dr. Orli Peter traveled to London to provide trauma treatment and train Sandi Mann, Chair of Jewish Action for Mental Health, in the methods developed by Israel Healing Initiative using VNS devices for nervous system regulation. The mission continues: helping people stabilize, sleep, think clearly, and remain psychologically resilient under threat.

Israel Healing Initiative donated six VNS devices with Tali Tobias, who will be delivering them to Nigel Tobias, the Executive Director of the British-Israel Chamber of Commerce, to support members of the Jewish community struggling with heightened anxiety, hypervigilance, and sleep disruption as they navigate an increasingly dangerous climate targeting Jews specifically.

Trauma spreads through nervous systems. So does resilience.

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