HTTP:: Earthquakes Adversely Affect the Human Brain
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According to a recent scientific study, it may be that experiencing (and surviving) an earthquake may have a number of side-effects on people, including damage to their brain function, even though they remain physically healthy. The investigation was conducted on survivors of the Wenchuan, China earthquake, which took place on May 12, 2008, and was led by an international team of scientists, featuring researchers from China, the United States and the United Kingdom. The main goal of the research was to assess whether and how the human brain adapted to extreme amounts of emotional stress, such as that inflicted during an earthquake, when all reason was usually abandoned, and people experienced sights they never though possible before. Until now, such researches have only been conducted on animals. The team published its finds in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), ScienceDaily reports. In those studies, the limbic, para!
limbic, striatal, and prefrontal structures inside the brain proved to play an important part in determining a test subjects' response to stress, pain, and danger. Other investigations, conducted on humans, focused only on patients who had been clinically diagnosed with the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These research...
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