Maltreatment changes the brains of victims by way of reducing the size of both the hippocampus and amygdala, and the emotional and memory regulatory system, the limbic system, is changed “due to (its) over excitation” (Feldman, p. 213). …show more content…
Head trauma can cause long-term consequences including cerebral palsy or blindness. Other long-term consequences consist of improper brain development, which can cause learning disabilities, addiction to alcohol, drugs, and/or cigarettes, the inability to properly regulate emotions, a lack of language skills, psychiatric disorders like eating disorders, depression, and anxiety, and “certain chronic diseases as adults, including heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, liver disease, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high levels of C-reactive protein” (Child Abuse and Neglect,