Topic: potentially traumatic events (PTEs)

Previous research has shown that several subcortical brain regions, including the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the thalamus, in patients diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) show a reduced volume relative to people who are not diagnosed with PTSD. There are also findings of a reduction of the volume of the corpus callosum in male children that have experienced child maltreatment and female children that have experienced sexual abuse. In this study, we aim to expand this finding to a broader population of trauma-survivors who experienced childhood neglect and/or potentially tr