Memory. As I’ve discussed often, it is a critical component of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Those episodes where we felt that intense fear can reverberate and then periodically (or continually) revisit our consciousness. In PTSD, it’s the amygdala and the cingulate cortex portions of the brain that are prominent in these recurrences.
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And the wind, it cries Mary…
Disturbing research has been published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. And, it’s not clear to me if this is just true for British youth or not. It seems that those British children with higher IQ’s were more likely to be drug users (amphetamines, marijuana, cocaine, among them.)