Are neurological changes in the amygdala responsible for accelerating the rate of puberty and in abused children? Which hormones specifically are responsible? Do these neurological changes have other consequences as the child matures to adulthood?
When we speaking towards the neuropsychiatric effects of violence in teenagers, we should first emphasize the complex combined negative effects of stress on the affected brain. Among the main pathogenetic factors we must noting a great changes in cerebral hydro- and hemodynamics with the inclusion of protective mechanisms of hemodynamic shock, which lead to a pronounced post stress imbalance of the cerebral hydro-hemodynamics, neurodynamics and malfunction of the central endocrine organs. The development of post stress endocrinopathies in adolescents after violence leads to a total disorders in the whole organism at the various level of live system subordination with the forming of posttraumatic post stress syndrome with astheno-depressive syndrome and psychosomatics.
There is an excellent Nature Neuroscience 2012 paper by Ryan Bodgan (http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v15/n12/full/nn.3270.html) that demonstrates that stress in infancy leading to altered cortisol levels in childhood culminates in vulnerability to dysregulated affect in adolescent girls by biasing the functional dynamics of core neural regions mediating the generation and regulation of emotional responsiveness.
Thank you Ulyana for another direction to explore. Your information is precisely what I hoped to gain. I am just beginning my research into this, so any resources are greatly appreciated!
Thank you Joshua for the resource! This is precisely the information I was seeking. I did find a study that compared cortisol levels in adult soldiers with PTSD to levels found in abused kids. They determined the effects from heightened levels were similar regarding hyper vigilance, yet differed metabolically. I find this interesting and am searching for similar articles. Thank you again for the article!
Joining psychoanalysis with neuroscience allows us to learn unconscious mind (UM) rules the brain, UM is made of information. Which information? The information that constitutes the history of every one, all what you have in memory. Any abuse is an unfortunate experience, which is stored in memory (brain) like any other, it is usually repressed, which means stored in UM, but this doesn't means immobilized or destroyed, no, it always try to become to conscious level and produces any kind of effects according to other UM contents this person has.
So this means abuse doesn't produce physical hurt in brain, but it produces behavior changes at any time, even days after the experience and in the adulthood. Anyway I can tell you all these traumas can be intervened with high probabilities of success, through psychoanalysis; which takes long periods of time, what for I have designed a therapy combining psychoanalysis with neurolinguistic programming, which produces favorable changes in short periods of time and can be implemented at any age.
Psychoanalysis takes long periods of time, but really it is desirable to anyone.
Can you provide a resource where I may view your therapy on this subject? Your reply provides much hope that additional therapies may bring relief. Thank you!
HI JENNIFER LYNNAE GARCIA, MY ANSWER IS, I BEGAN TO STUDY PSYCHOANALYSIS MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO, BY READING THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FREUD AND YOU SHOULD DO THAT, BUT I CAN SUGGEST YOU TO BEGIN READING: SEXUALITY IN THE ETIOLOGY OF NEUROSES, BUT ALSO MORE EXTENSIVE, THREE TRIALS OF SEXUAL THEORY.
THROUGH THIS INFORMATION I HAVE LEARNED AND I STILL LEARN, HOW TO DEAL WITH A SO DIFFICULT SUBJECT.
Thank you very much for your kind words, them make me feel proud. I want to comment this is a very wide subject, we could talk larger. please feel free to comment whenever you want.