AP12705

Early life stress can leave lasting impacts on the brain AP2705

This study was conducted on the lasting effects of negative stress on young children. Scientists round up 128 children, each around the age of 12, who had gone through some major form of trauma in their lives. These types of trauma include physical abuse, neglect and being raised in a low income household. Other children were gathered for this study, that were raised in middle income families that hadn't undergone any huge stresses in their lives. Scientists tested the childrens hippocampus and amygdala, a part of the brain that is involved with "emotion and stress processing". Indeed, the children that had gone through early life stress, had smaller amygdala's than the other children. Problems with behavior and overall life stress were also connected to this symptom. It is extremely important to pay attention to children and their every day situations because now it is known that issues later on in life, are linked to early traumatic stress in children from ages 2-12. "Learning, memory and the processing of stress and emotion" can all be effected by toxic and chronic stress.

References: "Early life stress can leave lasting impacts on the brain." //ScienceDaily//. ScienceDaily, 27 June 2014. Web. 12 July 2014. .

Only graders edit below this line!

Grader #1: 1405458514 Grader #2:1405485809 Grader #3: 1405700389 Grader #4: 1405799663] Grader #5: [sign here] =Grading Form= media type="custom" key="25032734"