Kerrie-Ann,
The longest journey is the journey within and yours has been one of high emotion with all it's mountains and valleys. Quick to speak and act and get involved, you may seek strength by trying to control both what gives you pleasure and pain. It is when emotional turbulence and...
lrs,
I have no doubt that when clinical improvement occurs that there are reasons for this. Basic science can lag behind to explain these changes but does not leave doubt in my mind as to the improvement itself. It is new medical evidence. If steel has a melting point, then each of us has...
Severe PTSD Damages Children’s Brains, Stanford/Packard Study Shows
March 05, 2007 12:01 AM Eastern Time
STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Severe stress can damage a child’s brain, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The...
Musical pieces to the puzzle
Building Baby's Brain:
The Role of Music
by Diane Bales, Ph.D.
"Researchers believe that musical training actually creates new pathways in the brain."
Music has a powerful effect on our emotions. Parents know that a quiet, gentle lullaby can soothe a...
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
—Albert Einstein
"An interviewer once asked Albert Einstein how he developed his complex scientific theories. In reply, Einstein reportedly pointed to his head and said that he used a pencil and a piece of paper to develop his ideas. This...
"In lateral research on cognitive processing, it has been shown that stress can alter or even reverse functional hemisphere asymmetries, for instance, the typical advantages of the left hemisphere for verbal material and the right hemisphere for visuo-spatial material in visual half field or...
Can the Different Cerebral Hemispheres
Have Distinct Personalities?
Evidence and Its Implications
for Theory and Treatment
of PTSD and Other Disorders
Fredric Schiffer, MD
ABSTRACT. The author presents an evidence-based psychological
theory which is derived from clinical observations, a review...
The following is from a Powerpoint presentation:
The Startle Reflex:
A Measure of Emotion and “Attention”
John J. Curtin, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Response matching hypothesis
Startle reflex is a defensive response
The magnitude of the reflex is INCREASED when the organism is...
You raise an excellent question of which I have not found an answer to, but the following article intrigues me, as brain damage actually improved artistic ability. I do not know if hippocampal volume affects artistic themes or amount of traumatic images drawn. Emotion is hard wired in the...
Hi Batgirl, Nam,
From About.com:
"Right Brain: The right brain controls the artistic abilities of a person. A person with a predominant right brain over the left brain will be more artistic, creative and spontaneous."
"In our schools today, more emphasis is given to Left Brain...
Hi Nam,
Thank you for posting the title of the book you are reading. Is there a list of right and left brain functions such as the one below? I have been reading Dr. Paul Valent's work, which I downloaded from his website. The following is from his 7 page PDF file titled, " RIGHT AND LEFT...
What questions? Oooops, guess I should have read the posts before this. Was that a Freudian slip? Nah, the floor looks clean, couldn't have slipped on it.
Am I busted too?:doh:
Roerich
Mac,
Welcome to this wonderful community unique in the world in my opinion and hence the reason why I have joined. I encourage fellow mental health professionals to come out of lurk mode and voice their thoughts as well. It is by communicating what we know that we have hope of finding what...
More on the research work of Alain Brunet, PhD of Centre de Recherche, Douglas Hospital Research Center:
"Pitman examined identical twin brothers, one of whom served in Vietnam and the other who didn't. Among the veterans he studied, some suffer from chronic PTSD. Pitman found that Vietnam...
Scientist Poisons Himself to Prove Theory, Wins Nobel Prize . . .
Nobel for scientist who poisoned himself to prove his ulcer theory
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Published: 04 October 2005
The discovery that bacteria rather than stress cause stomach ulcers and that antibiotics...
The Invisible Epidemic: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Memory and the Brain
J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.
Dr. Bremner is a faculty member of the Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Psychiatric Institute, and National Center for PTSD-VA...
The visual demonstration link below, after the Reference list, illustrates our mind's ability to shift from right brain (emotional) or left brain (logical) dominance:
Copy and paste any URL's or links below into your browser to view.
Our right hemisphere sees the world more as it really is...
Left brain struggles to put right brain emotion into words
Hi Everyone,
I chose the above title to post this information as the one below sounds rather technical. I've highlighted some parts in italics which are my emphasis as I try to put together some of the pieces of this puzzle. Please...
PTSD Powerpoint presentation by Daniel Brown, Ph.D. (attached to download)
Modifications of the Trauma Bonding Model for Domestic Violence: Dissociation
49-item assessment scale of possible cognitive distortions and coping strategies in young women abused when dating
Results:
Core Stockholm...
I suppose students who survived the Colombine tragedy are bonded by that tragedy, surviving as co-victims of a common trauma. The following is what Dr. Carnes considers to be "traumatic bonding".
The Case for Traumatic Bonding: The Betrayal Bond
The following are selected excerpts:
by Dr...
Trauma Bonding : The Pull to the Perpetrator
By Svali
PLEASE NOTE: This article discusses perpetration, trauma, and cult programming. If you are a survivor, do not read if these subjects are triggering unless with your therapist or a safe person.
I will be writing on an extremely difficult...
Military Sexual Trauma: Issues in Caring for Veterans
from the National Center for PTSD
This is Google's cache of the page.
A National Center for PTSD Fact Sheet
Amy Street, Ph.D. and Jane Stafford, Ph.D.
What is Military Sexual Trauma? Military sexual trauma refers to both sexual...
What is Betrayal Trauma Theory?
History of Terminology
Jennifer Freyd introduced the terms "betrayal trauma" and "betrayal trauma theory" in 1991 at a presentation at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute:
Freyd, J.J. Memory repression, dissociative states, and other cognitive control...
PERPETRATOR-VICTIM RELATIONSHIP: LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE FOR MEN AND WOMEN
Author: A. Ketring Leslie L. Feinauer, Scott
Source: American Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 27, Number 2, April - June 1999, pp. 109-120(12)
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group...
Abusive Head Trauma: The Relationship of Perpetrators to Their Victims
Suzanne P. Starling MD1, James R. Holden MS2, and Carole Jenny MD, MBA1
1 Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado
2 Department of Biology, University of...