The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

we talked about the cast of characters in the stress response: the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, the hippocampus, and the noradrenergic nucleus of the locus coeruleus (which we’ll refer to as the locus coeruleus from now on). Because these parts of the brain are on front lines of the stress response, it makes sense that a severe and prolonged