NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2007, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
The most dangerous kind of abuse is family violence. It occurs in the contextof a relationship of intimacy, kinship, trust and dependency, and mayhave physical, mental, or sexual forms. Family violence can take the form ofactive abuse or passive neglect. This article briefly presents some of the neuropsychological influences of being abused in early childhood, such as emotional disorders, adaptive problems, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),effects on physical health, somatoform disturbances, and personality disorders.The results of using fMRI to look for specific changes and abnormalitiesin the brains of people who have been the victims of physical, mental, orsexual abuse in early childhood will be characterized in a more detailed way.Abused individuals often show pathological changes in the limbic system,impairment of the left cerebral hemisphere, neuroanatomical abnormalities inthe corpus callosum, and biochemical changes of neurotransmitters. Finally,the impact of empirical research in neuroscience on the health of abused andneglected children will be discussed.
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Urszula Oszwa
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