The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

by Bruce D. Perry

Tolerance, on the contrary, mutes one’s response to an experience over time. Both factors are important for the functioning of memory: if we didn’t get tolerant to familiar experiences, they would always appear new and potentially overwhelming. The brain would probably run out of storage capacity, like an old computer. Similarly, if we didn’t become increasingly sensitive to certain things, we would not

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