Images Show The Shocking Effect Of Emotional Trauma On A Child's Brain/ Οι εικόνες δείχνουν την συγκλονιστική επίδραση του συναισθηματικού
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Take a
look at the image of two brains above. Although they belong to children of the
same age, you’ll notice that the one on the left is much bigger and has fewer
blurred structures than the one on the right.
This
radical difference is not caused by disease or physical injury, it's actually
the result of extreme emotional trauma and neglect.
The image comes from a paper by Professor Bruce D
Perry, Chief of Psychiatry at Texas Children's Hospital. In his words: “The CT
scan on the left is an image from a healthy 3-year-old with an average head
size. The image on the right is from a 3-year-old child suffering from severe
sensory-deprivation neglect. This child’s brain is significantly smaller than
average and has enlarged ventricles and cortical atrophy.”
It's well established that early childhood years can
profoundly affect the rest of a person's life, whether it's through the expression
of certain genes or your risk of developing asthma later on. However, it’s less
well-known that they can also affect the physical structure and size of your
brain.
Numerous studies have looked into the startling link between
brain development and extreme trauma. A 2007 study found that children with
post-traumatic stress disorder and high levels of the stress hormone cortisol
were likely to experience a decrease in the size of the hippocampus, a brain
region associated with emotions and memory processing.
Towards the final decade of Romania’s brutal communist
dictatorship, Nicolae Ceausescu outlawed all contraception and abortions,
leading to thousands of children being abandoned in so-called “orphanages”
where they were left en-mass in cramped conditions with virtually no care and
little food. A study in 2015 looked at the brains of 26 children in these
horrendous conditions and discovered they had significantly less developed
white matter in at least four parts of their brains. Brain regions responsible
for emotion were particularly affected, as were areas associated with
maintaining attention, executive function, and sensory processing.
Needless to say, all of these insights highlight the
irrefutable importance of a caring and loving environment for children in the
first few years of their lives.
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