PSYC23H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Borderline Personality Disorder
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Maltreatment at an early age can have enduring negative effects on a child"s brain development and function. Story of the boy whose mother mistreated him got his hands burned for eating her boyfriends food. Childhood maltreatment was understood either to foster the development of intra- psychic defense mechanisms that proved to be self-defeating in adulthood or to arrest psychosocial development, leaving a wounded child within. The impact of sever stress the impact of severe stress can leave an indelible imprint on its structure and function. Such abuse, it seems, induces a cascade of molecular and neurobiological effects that irreversibly alter neural development. The aftermath of childhood abuse can manifest itself at any age in a variety of ways. Internally it can appear as de- pression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts or posttraumatic stress; it can also be ex- pressed outwardly as aggression, impul- siveness, delinquency, hyperactivity or substance abuse: strongly associated with borderline personality disorder.
