Olivia’s Reviews > The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma > Status Update

PTSD patients with severe early life trauma was startling. There was almost no activation of any of the self sensing areas of the brain the MPFC interior singlet the cortex, and the insula did not light up at all the only area that showed a slight activation was the posterior cingulate, which is responsible for basic orientation in space

Chronic emotional abuse and neglect can be just as devastating as physical abuse and sexual molestation

If the memory of trauma is encoded in the viscera, in heartbreaking and gut- wrenching emotions, in autoimmune disorders and skeletal/muscular problems, and if mind/brain/visceral communication is the royal road to emotional regulation, this demands a radical shift in our therapeutic assumptions