Child abuse 'has serious consequences for brain development'

Jane Stevens 6/23/1412:00 PM

Past research has established that child abuse can lead to alterations in brain structure. But the team involved in this latest study, including Joaquim Radua, a researcher at FIDMAG Sisters Hospitallers Foundation for Research and Teaching in Spain, says neuroimaging studies investigating the extent of these alterations have been "inconsistent."

With this in mind, the researchers set out to see just how much child maltreatment influences brain structure.

They found that the individuals who had been exposed to childhood maltreatment had much smaller volumes of gray matter in certain brain areas, compared with those who had no history of child abuse.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/278537.php

Abstract in Journal of American Psychiatry: Gray Matter Abnormalities in Childhood Maltreatment: A Voxel-Wise Meta-Analysis

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