woman vs men

It is reported that women display significantly greater activity in the affect regulating structure than men do during PET scan. The data indicate gender differences in empathic styles between sexes (Schore, 2001).Recent research shows that impaired orbitofrontal corelates to autism, schizophrenia, mania, unipolar depression, phobic states, posttraumatic stress disorder, drug addiction, alcoholism, and borderline and psychopathic personality disorders (Schore, 2001).Early traumatic experience of a baby will result in storing such negative experiences into implicit or procedural memory. It will later manifest in rapid emotional activiation and instability, reflect hyperarousal, and subsequent rapid escalation of intense nagative affect, self disorganized, explosively and implosively (Schore, 2001)

disassociation and reconnection

The state-regulating emotional experience mostly occurs in the preconcious mind mainly because the temporal sulcus (amydala) is not well connected to the orbitofrontal lobes. It means that the emotional response is not well connected to the executive function of the brain, and therefore, the brain is not able to control much about the emotional responses (such as depression and anger). This is mainly due to the fact the obitofrontal lobes of human being have evolved recently whereas the temporal lobes have been there since a long time.


The recent evolution of the emotional brain have started to integrate ideas and thoughts, and thus form 'empathy', a form of intelligent that a person able to understand how others' feel. A person with understanding of empathy usually has a superior skills in critical human functions such as social adjustments, control of moods, drive, and responsibilities, and all these factors are crucial in shaping the personality of an individual (Cavada & Schultz, 2000, p.205).

2nd Sept 2008

Today is the 2nd day of Hari Raya in the year of 2008. it is a rare opportunity to spend time with the family especially with the kids. I have so far finished 2 important books about attachment theory. In summary, maternity care is crucially important during the first two years of an infant, where the right hemisphere of the emotional brain about to develop.

In any event where care is not presence during the first two years of a baby, the right brain will be impaired and it may develop trauma. Such traumatic depression will be stored in the unconcious mind of the right brain. As a result of these unintegrated displacement in the psychological mind, it will develop a rigid character as well as inflexible behavior.

The rigidity of the personality will be reflected in day to day life, and it may also transfer to other generation within the family.