Sexual Trauma and the Female Brain.

•Nearly one in three women experience sexual violence in their lifetime, often as young adults.•Women who experience sexual violence are at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.•Maternal behaviors can increase the survival of new neurons in female rodents.•Sexual aggression disrupts maternal behavior in young rodent females, which relates to decreases in neurogenesis.•MAP Training is a neurogenesis-inspired intervention to help women recover from trauma.