Authors: Alice Bain
Kids who were abused as children grow up with brains tuned to be hypervigilant – similar changes have been observed in the brains of soldiers. Abused kids have a kind of permanent, low-grade Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that never really goes away. We have long known that abused kids grow up to be more anxious and depressed,…
Authors: Alice Bain
Kids who were abused as children grow up with brains tuned to be hypervigilant – similar changes have been observed in the brains of soldiers. Abused kids have a kind of permanent, low-grade Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that never really goes away. We have long known that abused kids grow up to be more anxious and depressed, and now we have the brain imaging showing permanent neural rewiring to go with that data.
Don’t hit your kids. Just don’t.
via SciGuru, Child abuse changes the brain
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