Wednesday, February 28, 1990

The Body Keeps the Score: Memory and the Evolving Psychobiology of Post Traumatic Stress.

David Baldwin's Trauma Information, Articles: Van der Kolk (1994)

The Body Keeps the Score: Memory and the Evolving Psychobiology of Post Traumatic Stress.

This is a version of an article first published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 1994, 1(5), 253-265.

Bessel van der Kolk reviews memory for traumatic events in this article. He discusses limbic system involvement in stress responses, psychobiological and developmental factors influencing how traumatic memories may be consolidated in the brain, and neuroendocrine abnormalities associated with PTSD. This article provides an excellent and very clear description of many aspects of memory for traumatic events, and it includes extensive references. Two tables and two figures are not available in this version. Includes 134 references. "
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