The Workshop: Current research is showing major breakthroughs in what happens in the brain following trauma, indicating that insight and understanding may have a limited influence on the operation of
subcortical processes and the resolution of trauma.
Current neuroscience research indicates that insight and understanding may have only a limited influence on the operation of
subcortical processes disrupted by traumatic and relational wounds of war.
Not exact matches
In brain - imaging studies, teen brains show more activation in regions that
process rewards, motivations and emotions (the socioaffective circuitry in the
subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adults.
For example, studies have shown that children exposed to music have better language skills, possibly due to
subcortical sound
processing.
This suggests that functional brain networks are optimized toward
processing speed and a high level of efficient global information integration between cortical and
subcortical regions of the brain network.
Also noteworthy in this context, the prefrontal brain systems that
process rewards and support reward - based decision - making undergo a prolonged and vulnerable developmental trajectory, and an impaired capacity of these prefrontal systems to regulate
subcortical structures (particularly striatal regions of the basal ganglia) is implicated in risky, impulsive and otherwise disadvantageous decision - making from childhood through later life (for review, Fareri et al.