How Childhood Trauma Can Affect Brain Development (Multiple Choice Quiz).

Severe and protracted childhood trauma can damage brain development:

Structurally

Functionally

Neurochemically

In all three of these ways

Severe and protracted childhood trauma damage the brain's amygdala. The amygdala:

Processes fear

Processes speech

Processes smell

Processes vision

Severe and protracted childhood trauma can damage higher cognitive functioning. The lobe of the brain most associated with higher cognitive functioning is the:

Parietal lobe

Frontal lobe

Temporal lobe

Occipital lobe

Severe and protracted childhood trauma can lead to an over-dominant:

Prefrontal cortex

Olfactory area

Motor cortex

Brain stem

At what stage of life can the brain's architecture be altered by experiences?

Infancy

Early childhood

Adolesence

Throughout life

Severe and protracted childhood trauma can adversely affect the development of the brain's hippocampus. An important, primary function of the hippocampus is to:

Store autobiographical memories

Plan events

Control breathing and heart rate

Problem solve

Severe and protracted childhood trauma can adversely affect the development of the hypothalamic-pitutary-adrenal axis (HPA axis). The functions of the HPA-axis include:

Regulation of the immune system

Regulation of the metabolic system

Regulation of the central nervous system

All of these

One of the consequences of severe and protracted childhood trauma may be 'limbic irritability'. Symptoms of 'limbic irritability' include:

Somatic symptoms

Dissociative symptoms

EEG (brain wave) abnormalities

All of these

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