Stress has always been linked to poor health but perhaps this is for the first time that any study has come out uncovering negative effects of stress on kids’ brain so comprehensibly.
In this new study by the U.S. scientists, it was found that mental health of the children suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD might turn worse following damage to hippocampus, which my result in behavioral problems, memory loss, anxiety, etc. Further, the same study states that kids undergoing the phase of PTSD also contain higher level of cortisol in their blood, which has been found pernicious for hippocampal in studies conducted on animals.
Through this study, it becomes quite clear that how harmful stress could be for kids. Moreover, we can keep a blind eye to the fact that in the recent years, like adults, kids too are finding themselves encircled by stress disorders, which is really an alarming bell for the society. For better understanding, find out how harmful stress or PTSD could be:-
• Study: PTSD Effects Sensitivity to Pain
• The Health Effects of Stress and Increased Cortisol
• Your Body - How Stress Affects Health
• Stress affects us in many ways
• How Stress Affects Your Immune System and More
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Via: BBC
