Does Stress Damage the Brain? Understanding Trauma-Related Disorders From a Mind-Body Perspective

By S. A. Young. 2003

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Child Maltreatment and Later Cognitive Functioning: A Systematic Review (2013, background): “According to the studies assessed in this review, the cognitive functions most commonly impaired in individuals with PTSD include (a) memory (to a greater extent in terms of immediate retrieval of verbal and visual information; to a lesser extent, in terms of non-immediate retrieval); (b) attention,”
Posttraumatic stress disorder: a state-of-the-science review. (2006, background): “The results of these studies introduced the possibility that stress in humans may also lead to hippocampal damage (Bremner, 1998; Pitman, 2001; Bremner, 2002).”
MRI and PET study of deficits in hippocampal structure and function in women with childhood sexual abuse and posttraumatic stress disorder. (2003, background): “Bremner (23) has argued that these commonly comorbid disorders should be viewed as representing a group of “trauma-spectrum” disorders that have their basis in a stress-mediated effect on the brain.”