It's All About That Brain: Essentials of Developmental Neuroscience for Careg...
Py 420 psychology after 9.11
1. The Psychological Impact of 9/11
2011 CAE National Security Colloquium
Jarralynne Agee, PsyD
Adjunct Professor University of Alabama, Birmingham
Program Coordinator, JCCEO CSAPP
9/22/11
4. Emotional Memory
• On our discussion board
• Describe the images you
remember most.
• Discuss:
− What you remember about
that day
− Physical details about the
date or time
− Mental details about
information
− Emotional memories about
the day and event
5. The brain and traumatic images
• The amygdala and pain
6. The brain and traumatic images
• Emotional memory
• Is emotional pain real
• Images and emotion
• Dealing with trauma
− Individually
− As a community
− As a country
7. The brain and trauma
• Emotional responses
− Shock
− Fear
− Numb……..others?
• Mental Response
− Find meaning
− “Trauma script”
− Making meaning of the events
• Intellectual response
− Making meaning of the events
9. Social Ecosystem
Mesosystem- A more generalized
Microsystem- The most basic system,
system referring to the interactional
referring to an individual's most
processes between multiple
immediate environment (i.e., the
microsystems (i. e., effects of spousal
effects of personality characteristics
relationships on parent-child
on other family members).
interactions).
Ecosystem
Exosystem- Settings on a more
generalized level which affect Macrosystem- The most generalized
indirectly, family interactions on the forces, affecting individuals and
micro and meso levels (i. e., the family functioning (i.e., political,
effects of parent's employment on cultural, economical, social).
family interactions).
11. Processing the moment:
How did the events on 9/11 impact the following?
• Microsystem- An
individual’s immediate
environment
• Mesosystem- System of
interaction between
multiple microsystems
• Exosystem-
Employment, travel etc.
• Macrosystem- Cultural
social and political
forces
12. Post Traumatic Stress
• What counts as trauma?
• How close or far away to the event do you have
to be to experience trauma?
• Who are the people that are most susceptible to
PTSD?
• Can people cope, manage or heal?
13. Making meaning of what has
happened?
• What happens as a result of
trauma?
• Setbacks or carry forwards?
• How does history get retold?
• What have we learned that
we can use in the future?
Editor's Notes
The expression "Shock and Awe" was officially adopted to describe the opening strategy of the 2003 attack on Iraq. Although it didn't seem to impress Iraqis, it worked brilliantly in the 9-11 incident, where its creators couldn't claim credit for it. Not only did it provide the Bush administration a pretext to attack Afghanistan, it also provided the justification for virtually removing itself from accountability to the people, and empowering itself to arrest and detain anyone of its choosing. But arrest and detention have not been necessary to win most people's silent consent (or even vocal approval) for any action deemed necessary by the government in the War on Terror. The psychological trauma, together with the mass media's refusal to air the difficult questions, has proven quite sufficient.
New York City Handout
The amygdala and persistent pain byDrevets WCNeugebauer V, Li W, Bird GC, Han JS.Department of Anatomy & Neurosciences,University of Texas Medical Branch,Galveston, 77555-1069, USA.voneugeb@utmb.edu Neuroscientist. 2004 Jun;10(3):221-34. ABSTRACTA reciprocal relationship exists between persistent pain and negative affective states such as fear, anxiety, and depression. Accumulating evidence points to the amygdala as an important site of such interaction. Whereas a key role of the amygdala in the neuronal mechanisms of emotionality and affective disorders has been well established, the concept of the amygdala as an important contributor to pain and its emotional component is still emerging. This article will review and discuss evidence from anatomical, neuroimaging, behavioral, electrophysiological, pharmacological, and biochemical data that implicate the amygdala in pain modulation and emotional responses to pain. The latero-capsular division of the central nucleus of the amygdala is now defined as the "nociceptive amygdala" and integrates nociceptive information with poly-modal information about the internal and external bodily environment. Dependent on environmental conditions and affective states, the amygdala appears to play a dual facilitatory and inhibitory role in the modulation of pain behavior and nociceptive processing at different levels of the pain neuraxis. Only recently, electrophysiological, pharmacological, and biochemical neuroplastic changes were shown in the nociceptive amygdala in persistent pain. It is conceivable, however, that amygdala plasticity plays an important role in emotional pain behavior and its modulation by affective state.
The amygdala and persistent pain byDrevets WCNeugebauer V, Li W, Bird GC, Han JS.Department of Anatomy & Neurosciences,University of Texas Medical Branch,Galveston, 77555-1069, USA.voneugeb@utmb.edu Neuroscientist. 2004 Jun;10(3):221-34. ABSTRACTA reciprocal relationship exists between persistent pain and negative affective states such as fear, anxiety, and depression. Accumulating evidence points to the amygdala as an important site of such interaction. Whereas a key role of the amygdala in the neuronal mechanisms of emotionality and affective disorders has been well established, the concept of the amygdala as an important contributor to pain and its emotional component is still emerging. This article will review and discuss evidence from anatomical, neuroimaging, behavioral, electrophysiological, pharmacological, and biochemical data that implicate the amygdala in pain modulation and emotional responses to pain. The latero-capsular division of the central nucleus of the amygdala is now defined as the "nociceptive amygdala" and integrates nociceptive information with poly-modal information about the internal and external bodily environment. Dependent on environmental conditions and affective states, the amygdala appears to play a dual facilitatory and inhibitory role in the modulation of pain behavior and nociceptive processing at different levels of the pain neuraxis. Only recently, electrophysiological, pharmacological, and biochemical neuroplastic changes were shown in the nociceptive amygdala in persistent pain. It is conceivable, however, that amygdala plasticity plays an important role in emotional pain behavior and its modulation by affective state.
EcosystemMicrosystem- The most basic system, referring to an individual's most immediate environment (i.e., the effects of personality characteristics on other family members).Mesosystem- A more generalized system referring to the interactional processes between multiple microsystems (i. e., effects of spousal relationships on parent-child interactions).Exosystem- Settings on a more generalized level which affect indirectly, family interactions on the micro and meso levels (i. e., the effects of parent's employment on family interactions).Macrosystem- The most generalized forces, affecting individuals and family functioning (i.e., political, cultural, economical, social).
