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[Memory and trauma impact: a development approach].

Maria Moura1, José Estrada

  • 1Serviço de Psiquiatria da Infância e Adolescência, Hospital Dona Estefânia, (CHLC), Lisboa.

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Summary

This review explores how the brain processes memory, detailing limbic system roles and memory types. Intense emotional trauma can impair explicit memory while potentially creating pathological implicit memories.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neurobiology

Context:

  • Memory formation involves complex neuroanatomic structures and neurotransmission.
  • Individual experiences dynamically shape memory through neuronal activation patterns.

Purpose:

  • To review key neuroanatomic structures and neurotransmission in memory.
  • To describe memory types, development, and related phenomena like amnesia and trauma.

Summary:

  • Limbic regions (amygdala, orbito-frontal cortex) are crucial for memory processing, codification, and consolidation.
  • Explicit memory is susceptible to forgetting and can be inhibited by extreme emotional intensity, while implicit memory may persist.
  • Psychological trauma disrupts explicit memory consolidation, leading to pathological neuronal changes in the amygdala and hippocampus, potentially causing psychiatric disorders.

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  • Understanding memory mechanisms is vital for addressing trauma's neurophysiologic and psychopathologic consequences.
  • Pathological neuronal rebuilding due to trauma can lead to irreversible changes, impacting learning and contributing to mood, anxiety, personality, dissociative disorders, and psychosis.