J 2021

Lifelong impact of extreme stress on the human brain: Holocaust survivors study

FŇAŠKOVÁ, Monika, Pavel ŘÍHA, Marek PREISS, Petr BOB, Markéta NEČASOVÁ et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Lifelong impact of extreme stress on the human brain: Holocaust survivors study

Autoři

FŇAŠKOVÁ, Monika (203 Česká republika, domácí), Pavel ŘÍHA (203 Česká republika, domácí), Marek PREISS (203 Česká republika, domácí), Petr BOB (203 Česká republika, domácí), Markéta NEČASOVÁ (203 Česká republika, domácí), Eva KORIŤÁKOVÁ (203 Česká republika, domácí) a Ivan REKTOR (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

NEUROBIOLOGY OF STRESS, NEW YORK, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2021, 2352-2895

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

30103 Neurosciences

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 7.142

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14740/21:00124263

Organizační jednotka

Středoevropský technologický institut

UT WoS

000651603900007

Klíčová slova anglicky

Holocaust survivors; MRI; Posttraumatic stress; Posttraumatic growth; Lifelong impact

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 17. 10. 2024 10:14, Mgr. Adéla Pešková

Anotace

V originále

Background: We aimed to assess the lifelong impact of extreme stress on people who survived the Holocaust. We hypothesised that the impact of extreme trauma is detectable even after more than 70 years of an often complicated and stressful post-war life. Methods: Psychological testing was performed on 44 Holocaust survivors (HS; median age 81.5 years; 29 women; 26 HS were under the age of 12 years in 1945) and 31 control participants without a personal or family history of the Holocaust (control group (CG); median 80 years; 17 women). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using the 3T Siemens Prisma scanner was performed on 29 HS (median 79 years; 18 women) and 21 CG participants (median 80 years; 11 women). The MRI-tested subgroup that had been younger than 12 years old in 1945 was composed of 20 HS (median 79 years; 17 women) and 21 CG (median 80 years; 11 women). Results: HS experienced significantly higher frequency of depression symptoms, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and posttraumatic growth, and lower levels of well-being. The MRI shows a lifelong neurobiological effect of extreme stress. The areas with reduced grey matter correspond to the map of the impact of stress on the brain structure: insula, anterior cingulate, ventromedial cortex including the subgenual cingulate/orbitofrontal cortex, temporal pole, prefrontal cortex, and angular gyrus. HS showed good adjustment to post-war life conditions. Psychological growth may contribute to compensation for the psychological and neurobiological consequences of extreme stress. The reduction of GM was significantly expressed also in the subgroup of participants who survived the Holocaust during their childhood. Conclusion: The lifelong psychological and neurobiological changes in people who survived extreme stress were identified more than 70 years after the Holocaust. Extreme stress in childhood and young adulthood has an irreversible lifelong impact on the brain.

Návaznosti

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Název: Czech-BioImaging