To read Part One of my eBook How Childhood Trauma Can Physically Damage The Developing Brain (And How These Effects Can Be Reversed) scroll down.
CONTENTS
How Childhood Trauma Can Alter Brain’s Reward Circuits
There is increasing evidence to suggest that chronic, severe stress during childhood can lead to changes in the brain’s reward circuitry that leads individuals to prefer short term gains and immediate gratification over postponed, long-term gains and pleasures.
So, for … Read the rest
Why Trauma Survivors May Find It Hard To Learn From Past Behaviour.
Many of us who have experienced severe and protracted childhood trauma, particularly if we have gone on to be diagnosed with conditions such as complex PTSD or BPD as a result, are frequently liable to ‘act out’ unbearable inner … Read the rest
How Bullying May Affect Teenagers’ Brains
A study conducted by Quinlan et al. (2018) on the effects of bullying on the brain and involving the study of 682 teenagers required these young people to fill out questionnaires about the extent to which they experienced bullying. … Read the rest
Childhood Trauma Leading To Over-Dominant Brain Stem
A simplified way of describing the structure of the brain is to think of it as comprising three main regions (e.g. MacLean, 1990) that develop in the following order from birth to a person’s early or mid-twenties.
FIRST TO DEVELOP: … Read the rest
Neurofeedback And Reducing Activity In Brain’s Fear Circuitry.
According to Mobbs, the brain consists of two areas involved in how we experience fear as shown below :
It is becoming increasingly recognized that overactivity in the brain’s fear circuitry may be of fundamental relevance to not only complex-PTSD … Read the rest
What Are The Differences Between The Traumatized And Normal Brain?
Severe and protracted childhood trauma can physically damage the brain’s development, adversely affecting both its structure and functionality, which, in turn, can contribute to the development of very serious psychiatric conditions such as complex posttraumatic stress disorder (complex PTSD) and … Read the rest
3 Ways To Repair Brain Damage Caused By Protracted Childhood Trauma
We have already seen in other articles that I have posted on this site that significant and protracted childhood trauma can physically damage the developing brain and have an adverse effect upon the body’s physiology as a whole. In … Read the rest
Why Girls May Be Worse Affected By Childhood Trauma Than Boys.
Approximately 2℅ of boys who have experienced just one ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) go on to develop chronic depression. In the case of girls who have experienced one ACE, however, this figure dramatically increases to 18%.
And, in … Read the rest
Those In Grip Of BPD Do NOT Deserve Blame For Their Actions
We have seen in many other articles that I have posted on this site that there is a strong association between the experience of childhood trauma and the development of BPD.
Sadly, compounding their problem, those suffering from BPD … Read the rest
Childhood Trauma Can Create Brain Wired For Fear
We have seen from other articles I have published on this site that psychological experiences, especially when young, can actually alter the physical structure of the brain, as well as its neural connection (i.e. how the brain cells are interlinked) … Read the rest
Brains Of Children Exposed To Domestic Violence Affected In Similar Way To Exposure To Combat
A study carried out at University College London (UCL) has found that when a child is continually exposed to domestic violence, such as the father regularly beating the mother, their brains are negatively affected in a similar way to … Read the rest
Neuroplasticity : 3 Ways Brain Can Physically Recover From Trauma
Above: video summary of this article (Neuroplasticity : 3 Ways The Brain Can Physically Recover From Trauma).
THE BRAIN AND NEUROPLASTICITY :
I have previously written articles on how early life trauma can adversely affect the physical development … Read the rest
