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Brain volume may be tied to emotionally protective traits

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  1. pamymaf
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    On Reddit, one of the cop comments also asks about childhood trauma and if it stunts the development of this region. And it really does. Source:...

    On Reddit, one of the cop comments also asks about childhood trauma and if it stunts the development of this region. And it really does. Source: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e92a/f143699142759573938646ad6679f0740b89.pdf

    It's scary and amazing how much can be impacted in your first years of life. Observing various behaviors as a child permanently influences you for the future. Quality parenting is so important, it's sad that so many children don't have it.

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  2. pamymaf
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    The study finds that there may be a link between a larger pre-frontal cortex and personality traits (such as optimism) that help safeguard against depression/anxiety/etc. While this is well and...

    The study finds that there may be a link between a larger pre-frontal cortex and personality traits (such as optimism) that help safeguard against depression/anxiety/etc. While this is well and good, I wonder exactly how they're related. Does more brain matter cause optimism? Does something that also causes optimism cause more brain matter? Or perhaps does the brain start down the path of having this extra brain matter and depression/anxiety eats away at it?

    The brain is a muscle that we can strengthen through mental exercise, I'm so interested to see more studies on trying to increase the brain matter to help treat mental illness.

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