Stress, Trauma and Synaptic Plasticity
This book provides detailed insights into the cellular and molecular alterations that occur in the brain following stress and trauma. The changes to the grey matter in certain areas of the brain are similar in stressed humans and animals, with the most li
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Stress, Trauma and Synaptic Plasticity
Stress, Trauma and Synaptic Plasticity
Maxwell Bennett • Jim Lagopoulos
Stress, Trauma and Synaptic Plasticity
Maxwell Bennett The University of Sydney Brain and Mind Centre Camperdown NSW, NSW, Australia
Jim Lagopoulos Sunshine Coast Mind and Neuroscience Thompson Institute University of Sunshine Coast Birtinya, QLD, Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-91115-1 ISBN 978-3-319-91116-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91116-8
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Preface
Stress and trauma bring untold suffering into the lives of individuals, whether that of a genius with depression as described in Virginia Wolf and neuropsychiatry by one of us or in retired ex-service men and women diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. It is for great literary figures to illuminate the humanistic dimensions to this suffering and for neuropsychiatrists to determine what has gone awry in the brain that gives rise to it. This work is concerned with the neuroscientific perspective. Some object to the description of animal studies on stress and trauma occurring between the same covers as a description of human suffering, believing that the former denigrates those experiencing the latter. But evolution has conserved many of the neural networks that support our normal behaviour pertaining to fear and pain; hence it would be very foolish to abandon the study of what has gone awry in the animal brain that gives rise to, for example, anxiety behaviour. This app
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