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How repeated traumas affect the brain

2021-10-25T07:44:12.983Z


DECRYPTION - They attack in particular the capacity of the brain to make sense. Dissociation is a continuum: "Any healthy adult can have a dissociative experience without being sick ," says Dr Anne-Catherine Pernot-Masson, child psychiatrist (Trousseau hospital, Paris). In the car, for example, everyone can find themselves in front of their parking space without remembering having driven: part of the brain has driven, disconnected from the rest of the brain. ” In this case, i


Dissociation is a continuum:

"Any healthy adult can have a dissociative experience without being sick

," says Dr Anne-Catherine Pernot-Masson, child psychiatrist (Trousseau hospital, Paris).

In the car, for example, everyone can find themselves in front of their parking space without remembering having driven: part of the brain has driven, disconnected from the rest of the brain. ”

In this case, it is an isolated experience.

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Things are very different with repetitive psychotrauma.

“They attack the brain's ability to make sense, that is, to integrate the different cognitive, emotional, physical processes into a coherent whole.

As there is no unified self-perception before 5-6 years, repeated traumas before this age will break this process of representing a whole and this is how

IDDs

are born ”

, describes Dr Laurence Carluer, neurologist, psychotherapist and researcher at Inserm (CHU de Caen).

Complex pathology

This can also be seen on brain imaging, such as

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Source: lefigaro

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