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Acute Impact On Brain Function In Earthquake Survivors
ScienceDaily, 09/25/09
New research has found an acute impact on the brain function of physically healthy survivors and poses a risk to the mental health of these survivors. The researchers wanted to gain a better understanding of how functional brain systems adapt to severe emotional stress. Previous animal studies have demonstrated the importance of limbic, paralimbic, striatal, and prefrontal structures of the brain in stress and fear responses. Human studies, which have focused primarily on patients with clinically established posttraumatic stress disorders, have reported abnormalities in similar brain structures.
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