Child abuse changes the brain, study finds

Monday, December 5, 2011 - 22:30 in Psychology & Sociology

When children have been exposed to family violence, their brains become increasingly "tuned" for processing possible sources of threat, a new study reports. The findings reveal the same pattern of brain activity in these children as seen previously in soldiers exposed to combat.

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