Researchers who had previously studied the relationships between stress responses and maternal nurturing in
animals have taken their work into a new arena, looking at how human
brains are affected, in adulthood, by abuse and neglect suffered in
childhood. The study, carried out at McGill University in Montreal, is
very small (it compared the brains of 12 suicide victims who had been
abused to 12 suicide victims who had not been, against a control group
of 12 non-suicide brains) but, many in the field agree, could lead to
larger-scale research into how childhood trauma can cause lifelong
damage to a person's ability to handle stress.
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