The Lasting Effects of Psychological Trauma on Memory and the Hippocampus

Discuss how extreme stressors, including childhood abuse and combat, can have lasting effects on hippocampal-based verbal declarative memory and what the relevance of this to education, public policy, rehabilitation and psychiatric treatment
Describe research findings showing reduction in volume of the hippocampus in posttraumatic stress disorder related to abuse or combat andtheoretical explanations for findings
Describe how dysfunction of medial prefrontal cortex may contribute to symptoms of stress-related disorders like PTSD.


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