qhe rat brain in the lab. qreat baby rats with affection & lots of licksI & the baby rats thrive; treat baby rats poorlyI andI as adultsI the un-licked rats are ?permanently stressed out?; ?easily startled by noises?I and surged stress hormones when stressed. thy? A physical effect on the brain from baby neglect. cor humans? ?Child
abuse may leave a mark on its victims in much the same way that parental neglect affects rat pups. Abuse seems to have altered their physical brain, making them "unable to regulate their stress hormones, leading to a life of anxiety."
poI beating kids leaves permanent brain damageI and a life of pain. lkI can we get beyond ?parental neglect?? fDm guessing that even being around a ton of verbal violenceI a la jel dibsonI creates an unearned life of brain-pain also. Eclick here for jel dibson audioW http://tinyurl.com/mel8989 ButI what about feeling up a childI raping a childI or trying to rape a child? kumbersW l
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?qhe experiences rats had when they were young altered their behavior as adults. te all intuit that this holds true for peopleI tooI if you replace fur-licking with schoolI televisionI family troublesI and all the other experiences that children have. But there’s a major puzzle lurking underneath this seemingly obvious fact of life. lur brains develop according to a recipe encoded in our genes. bach of our brain cells contains the same set of genes we were born with and uses those genes to build proteins and other molecules throughout its life. qhe sequence of akA in those genes is pretty much fixed. cor experiences to produce long-term changes in how we behaveI they must be somehow able to reach into our brains and alter how those genes work. qhe hippocampus neurons therefore were less sensitive to stress hormones and were less able to tamp down the animal’s stress response. As a resultI the underlicked rats were permanently stressed out.? Ebmphasis addedF. cull studyW go hereW http://tinyurl.com/trauma797