Sarah Bakirci
Sarah Bakirci is an MRes student in Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology at University College London and Yale Child Study Center.
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Sarah Bakirci replied to Lynn D
Dear Lynn, thank you for your comment. You have picked up on something that is really important in this field. The alterations to behaviour that can sometimes occur after adversity and maltreatment ultimately might serve a purpose to the child (i.e., surviving the abusive environment) thus, they might be generalized to other environments as well. However,...
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Sarah Bakirci replied to Christopher Hunt-Law
Dear @ChristopherHunt-Law. I am overjoyed to know that this course has been useful and interesting to you. Thank you for enrolling, for your active participation and for all your insightful contributions! All the best!
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Sarah Bakirci replied to Ruth W
@RuthW Dear Ruth, thank you for your very important question. There have been studies looking at overgeneral memory in adults who have experienced maltreatment. For example, one study by Aglan, Williams, Pickles & Hill (2010) have found an association between childhood sexual abuse and overgeneral memory recall in adult women. In order to really know whether...
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Sarah Bakirci replied to Rio Dorbin
@RioDorbin For example, a child may be stressed about an exam and may have thoughts such as "I am scared to fail the exam." In such a case, perhaps reframing the negative feeling into a positive one will allow the student to adapt themselves to the situation. A proposed reframing of the event could be "The exam is an opportunity for me to see which material I...
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Sarah Bakirci replied to Rio Dorbin
@RioDorbin Dear Rio, thank you for your interesting comment! There are many potential ideas about this focus on remembering and thinking about negative events that you describe. In the field of emotion regulation, one strategy that involves this loop of thinking about an event multiple times is called "rumination." Studies have found that rumination is...
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That is an interesting observation Kim and we very much echo the hope that the neuroscientific research will lead to better and targeted interventions for young people. Indeed, as you will encounter in section 2.14, the brain does continue to adapt to the environment and thus, we cannot and think it is not right to claim that childhood abuse is deterministic...
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@RioDorbin Thank you for your thoughts Rio. The idea that attentional resources / attentional energy is being used for perceiving threat is correct. To push this thought further, do you think cognitive and affective processes compete for such attentional energy, and is therefore a limited resource? If it is being constantly used for one purpose (i.e.,...
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Sarah Bakirci replied to Julie Povall
Thank you for your comment Julie. I would like to encourage thinking about what function remembering negative events over positive ones may serve, much like the question provided about hypervigilance to threat in section 2.5. Humans constantly adapt to their surroundings in order to ensure survival. One hypothesis suggests that memory for potentially dangerous...
