Posts Tagged ‘Neurobiology of Resilience’
The Little Amygdala and the Big Pandemic; Considerations in Post Traumatic Resilience
Although small in size, the little amygdala is an amazingly powerful alarm center in the brain. It stores data to warn us of future threats. When the amygdala neurons fire intensely, a physical stress response is triggered system wide. The little amygdala “sounds the alarm”, activating the nervous system. As nation and a world, we…
Read MorePTSD and the Resilient Brain: A Symphony of Neurotransmitters and Hormones
Traumatic stressors are defined by the direct experience, witnessing of, or confrontation by an event involving actual or threatened danger, and they evoke responses that include intense fear, helplessness or horror. On a national and global level 2017 was peppered with one disaster after another. There has been a palpable sort of post-traumatic stress permeating…
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