In Scars That Won’t Heal: The Neurobiology of Child Abuse, the damaging effect of child abuse and neglect is looked at in more ways than behavioral, personality and functioning problems. The premise is less cognitive and more physical. This article explains findings of the brain being physically altered by these traumatic childhood events. When helping those personality disorders, the other thought that perhaps that their early traumas led to the developing brains to alter their growth, particularly the hippocampus and the amygdala. Using electroencephalograms (EEGs) to measure the activity of patients’ limbic systems, in those who had documented serious abuse, the frontal and temporal lobes had anomalies, mainly in the left hemisphere,
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The strange part of that finding was the hippocampus located on the left hemisphere was the smaller finding, yet the right hippocampus was normal size. Even those who are right-handed, thus being left hemisphere dominant, those who suffered abuse had a left hemisphere that lagged behind in development. The corpus callosum was also shown to have inhibited growth from childhood abuse, neglect was a more dominating factor for boys, while sexual abuse was a more dominating factor for girls, leading towards the reduction. Using research with their team and assisting others in research, Teicher wanted to show the just want childhood abuse did to the physical brains to the victims later on after the abuse had taken place. The effects of childhood abuse, in any form, can be seen later when the induvial is grown, even if they are out of that harmful situation. The effects can include, social impairment, academic and behavioral problems, and so many others. With so many problems associated with the cognitive-behavioral outcomes from an abusive situation, the physical problems within the brain aren’t generally thought of. Teicher and other shined a light on that area of trauma. In the process of brain development, stress from abuse can physically alter the
The strange part of that finding was the hippocampus located on the left hemisphere was the smaller finding, yet the right hippocampus was normal size. Even those who are right-handed, thus being left hemisphere dominant, those who suffered abuse had a left hemisphere that lagged behind in development. The corpus callosum was also shown to have inhibited growth from childhood abuse, neglect was a more dominating factor for boys, while sexual abuse was a more dominating factor for girls, leading towards the reduction. Using research with their team and assisting others in research, Teicher wanted to show the just want childhood abuse did to the physical brains to the victims later on after the abuse had taken place. The effects of childhood abuse, in any form, can be seen later when the induvial is grown, even if they are out of that harmful situation. The effects can include, social impairment, academic and behavioral problems, and so many others. With so many problems associated with the cognitive-behavioral outcomes from an abusive situation, the physical problems within the brain aren’t generally thought of. Teicher and other shined a light on that area of trauma. In the process of brain development, stress from abuse can physically alter the