When listening to Professor Frank Oberklaid talking about the ‘brain architecture being built in an hierarchical ‘bottom up’ sequence’, at the DI conference in Sofia, last month, I was struck by the methaphor he used. I have been using phrases like ‘the foundation of the brain’ and ‘when you build on a foundation with holes in it, the building won’t stand’ to explain the effects of institutionalisation on children for years now, but I had never heard anyone else use ‘architectural terms.’
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Understanding ACEs
Recently, I had the opportunity to watch the documentary ‘Resilience: the biology of stress and the science of hope.’, made in 2016. It was a very powerful experience. And it had a message that needs to be spread, so I will share some of it in this blog.
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