Wednesday, February 28, 1990

The Effects of Early Relational Trauma on Right Brain Development, Affect Regulation, and Infant Mental Health.

David Baldwin's Trauma Information, Articles:
Schore (2001 b)

The Effects of Early Relational Trauma on Right Brain Development, Affect Regulation, and Infant Mental Health.

Published in Infant Journal of Mental Health, 2001, 22, 201-269.

In the second part of his two-part interdisciplinary review, Allan Schore focuses on severe attachment failures, impairments in early development of the right brain's stress coping systems, and maladaptive infant mental health -- suggesting direct connections between traumatic attachment, inefficient right brain regulatory functions, and both maladaptive infant and adult mental health. He describes the neurobiology of infant trauma, neuropsychology of a disorganized / disoriented attachment pattern (associated with abuse and neglect), trauma-induced impairments of a regulatory system in the orbitofrontal cortex, links between orbitofrontal dysfunction and a predisposition to posttraumatic stress disorders, neurobiology of the dissociative defense, effects of early relational trauma on enduring right hemispheric function, and offers some implications for early intervention. 450 references. "
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