Brain Quote by Lynne Ramsay

“trauma produces actual physiological changes, including a recalibration of the brain’s alarm system, an increase in stress hormone activity, and alterations in the system…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“the key channel through which early adversity causes damage to developing bodies and brains is stress.”

— Paul Tough

“Nowadays many psychologists have found evidence that post traumatic stress disorder can be a cause of long-term emotional and physical problems, even when we…

— Gabrielle Palmer

My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals.

— Ann McKee

“Thus polyvictimization or complex trauma are "developmentally adverse interpersonal traumas" (Ford, 2005) because they place the victim at risk not only for recurrent stress…

— Christine A. Courtois

Living in stressful situations there are chemicals in your brain that are released that essentially degrade the neuron connections that allow you to function…

— Chris Murphy

“Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.”

— Asa Don Brown

Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of…

— Gabor Mate

“Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.”

— Stephanie S. Covington

I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed, but there's…

— Roland Orzabal

Fear in the mind causes stress in the body.

— Mark Driscoll

“There’s one more symptom we need to look at before looking at how trauma actually gets into the body and mind and causes long-term…

— Peter A. Levine