how the brain shrinks due to child neglect
Child abuse is a potent source of stress, and much of the literature on the relationship between child abuse and neglect and neurobiology has examined the effects of stress on the brain (e.g. De Bellis & Putnam, 1994).lthough there is evidence of damage or shrinking of the hippocampus following traumatic events, amnesia associated with hippocampal damage is usually confined to subsequent events, while retrograde memory, that is, memory for events preceding the hippocampal damage, is spared (Squire, 1992).