{"id":326,"date":"2025-04-28T05:27:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/being-shouted-at-by-parents-can-alter-childs-brain-experts-tell-uk-mps-childrens-health-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T05:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:27:53","slug":"being-shouted-at-by-parents-can-alter-childs-brain-experts-tell-uk-mps-childrens-health-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/being-shouted-at-by-parents-can-alter-childs-brain-experts-tell-uk-mps-childrens-health-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Being shouted at by parents can alter child\u2019s brain, experts tell UK MPs | Children&#8217;s health | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Scans of children\u2019s brains McCrory has undertaken using functional magnetic resonance imaging have shown that \u201csustained exposure to abuse, including verbal abuse, leads to significant biological alterations in the brain\u2019s structure and function\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>It can alter both the \u201cthreats\u201d and \u201crewards\u201d circuits in a child\u2019s brain, which play a key role in helping them to navigate the world and also in building and maintaining relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur imaging studies show how abuse, including verbal abuse, can alter a child\u2019s brain so that the world is perceived as a more dangerous place,\u201d McCrory said.<\/p>\n<p>Children subjected to verbal abuse can start to misinterpret neutral jokes, glances or facial expressions as threatening, and it can lead to them withdrawing from social contact or lashing out to protect themselves, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/apr\/28\/being-shouted-at-by-parents-can-alter-childs-brain-experts-tell-uk-mps\">www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/apr\/28\/being-shouted-at-by-parents-can-alter-childs-brain-experts-tell-uk-mps<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scans of children\u2019s brains McCrory has undertaken using functional magnetic resonance imaging have shown that \u201csustained exposure to abuse, including verbal abuse, leads to significant biological alterations in the brain\u2019s structure and function\u201d, he said. It can alter both the \u201cthreats\u201d and \u201crewards\u201d circuits in a child\u2019s brain, which play a key role in helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}