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In the last decade or so this guy Alan Schore has been researching away and found that the relationship between the primary care giver and the small child affects how the brain develops, which in turn I think effects the neuro chemicals.
The thing is though, pds have an emotional cause rather than a biochemical cause, so they are availabe for healing in relationship, as it is in relationship that they originate.

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Hello,

according to actual news and research releases there is maybe even more to be considered besides structural brain development (learning in the widest sense) and direct influences on neuro chemicals, and last but not least social/psychological environmental causes (past and present causes).

A new aspect is how eventually environmental and educational processes change the genetic onset that underlies brain chemistry by activating or deactivating certain gene sequences that influence the availability of neuro chemicals:

Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada - How environment affects genes in brains

I think there still is no satisfying explanation why pharmacological and psychological treatment still does not succeed in scales of more than 90 percent of cases, as it should (in my opinion).

Obviously these treatments still do not cover all the causes and processes that are at work, I guess. But there is hope that future research will come up with new basic approaches in treatment, I think.

Wishing well,
bluna