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How repeated psychological traumas affect the brain

By Dr Nathalie Szapiro-Manoukian

Posted yesterday at 09:28, updatedyesterday at 19:19

"When the traumas are repeated and therefore the stress persists, there is overall a decrease in activity in the prefrontal cortex which regulates emotional processing and an increase in the activity of the amygdala responsible for detecting threats." hank / HANK GREBE - stock.adobe.com

DECRYPTION - They attack in particular the capacity of the brain to make sense.

Dissociation is a continuum: "Any healthy adult can have a dissociative experience without being sick ," says ^Dr.  Anne-Catherine Pernot-Masson, child psychiatrist (Trousseau hospital, Paris). In the car, for example, everyone can find themselves in front of their parking space without remembering having driven: part of the brain has driven, disconnected from the rest of the brain. ” In this case, it is an isolated experience.