Harsh words can deform children's brains for life 

Abuse stunts one part of the young mind, says a new study. 

  Smacking, slapping or even shouting at children can significantly
  and permanently alter the structure of their brains and lead to 
  long-term behavioural problems, new research in the United States
  has revealed. 

  The findings - by senior consultants at McLean's Hospital, a 
  psychiatric centre affiliated to Harvard Medical School, in
  Massachusetts - fundamentally challenge many of the basic 
  precepts of childcare and of orthodox psychiatry. 

  Dr Martin Teicher, who led the study team, "The brain is
  fundamentally sculpted by our experiences. Adverse experience
  will sculpt our brain in a different way,' Teicher said. 'We 
  are finding that verbal abuse is devastating... These changes
  are permanent. It is not something people can just get over and
  then get on with their lives.' 

  His team took hundreds of brain scans from children who had been
  admitted to the hospital after suffering neglect, physical or 
  sexual abuse and compared them with scans of young people who 
  had not suffered anything similar. 

  They found that in the children who had been neglected or abused,
  the corpus callosum , the bundle of nerves that links the two 
  hemispheres of the brain and act as the main information pathway
  between them, was up to 40 per cent smaller than average. 

  An underdeveloped corpus callosum inhibits communication between
  one hemisphere and the other, the researchers claimed. As a 
  result children could end up 'residing' in one hemisphere rather
  than moving rapidly and easily from one to the other, as is
  usual. 

  The left brain hemisphere controls the right side of the body,
  and is where logical, rational thought and use of language takes 
  place. The right hemisphere controls the left side, and is the
  location for creative and emotional thought. An over-favouring
  of one side or the other can cause serious problems.

  Jason Burke, chief reporter
  Sunday December 31, 2000
  The Observer

  From "The Observer" an English Sunday broadsheet

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  "Perceptions" note: our analyses of:- 

  'animal hypnosis' -

  see http://www.perceptions.couk.com/devices.html
 
  [a condition triggered by brutal treatment of young humans 
  and other higher animals - where we forecast the
  damaging and 'unnatural' family and social outcomes ]
  
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  adolescent 'posers'

  see http://www.perceptions.couk.com/conscious.html

  [a further deleterious brain 'deformation' in adolescents
  educated to regard themselves as 'elite']

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  give clear reasons for the long-term psychotic 
  behavior of families, groups and classes who practise

  a)  early separation of mothers/children;
  b)  harsh treatment of children/young;
  c)  separation of siblings;
  d) 'privileged' upbringing;  
      
  and illustrate why this - psychotic behavior - is a 
  conspicuous social aberration in history and the present.

  Ie. In 'devices.html' we said - "Spartans, communes, martial
  clans, rulers, some ruling-class whites - seem to display
  psychotic behavior patterns" - which we predicted would result
  from the (types of) brain deformities outlined above, and in
  'conscious.html'

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