{"id":180159,"date":"2024-01-09T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-study-finds-that-traumatic-stress-is-associated-with-a-smaller-cerebellum"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:26:49","slug":"new-study-finds-that-traumatic-stress-is-associated-with-a-smaller-cerebellum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-study-finds-that-traumatic-stress-is-associated-with-a-smaller-cerebellum","title":{"rendered":"New study finds that traumatic stress is associated with a smaller cerebellum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-finds-that-traumatic-stress-is-associated-with-a-smaller-cerebellum2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have smaller cerebellums, according to new research from a Duke-led brain imaging study.<\/p>\n<p>The cerebellum, a part of the brain well-known for helping to coordinate movement and balance, can influence emotion and memory, which are impacted by PTSD. What isn\u2019t known yet is whether a smaller cerebellum predisposes a person to PTSD or PTSD shrinks the brain region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe differences were largely within the posterior lobe, where a lot of the more cognitive functions attributed to the cerebellum seem to localize, as well as the vermis, which is linked to a lot of emotional processing functions,\u201d said Ashley Huggins, Ph.D., the lead author of the report who helped carry out the work as a postdoctoral researcher at Duke in the lab of psychiatrist Raj Morey, M.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have smaller cerebellums, according to new research from a Duke-led brain imaging study. The cerebellum, a part of the brain well-known for helping to coordinate movement and balance, can influence emotion and memory, which are impacted by PTSD. What isn\u2019t known yet is whether a smaller cerebellum predisposes a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}